Lead to death of people by making their drugs unaffordable: now Martin, you’re not to work in the industry again
Sell drugs people literally begged you for and lead to death because you made their self treatment affordable: life in prison.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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Who is the second one referring to?
Someone who sells someone heroin they overdose on.
What kind of functioning moral system could possibly make such a distinction?
You have led to a death either way. Why is one life worth less? The only logical conclusion is classism.
It's not classism it's capitalism. We've long accepted that people should die if they can't pay, many people will even argue that it's a good thing. Absolutely deranged system.
Seems like nobody went to Google to find out that the drug in question was never returned to previous price, or anywhere near.
Doesn’t matter, because generics were finally made available despite his efforts to prevent it and maintain a monopoly. They’re free to price it at whatever they want as long as they make it available to makers of generics to allow competition. Preventing that process and making excessive profits since they blocked alternatives, while making it difficult for patients to access who didn’t have enough insurance coverage, is the main reason he got such penalties.
That's all true but it's also important to not dismiss his drug company culpability in the whole thing. They would fire him, and attack him only because he at that point was massive PR problem, not for any kind of attempt at accepting responsibility. If he wasn't such a public asshole they would give him raise and bonuses, board membership, maybe even say he is on the way to be the CEO, he would be their favourite corporate jackass.
No one dismissed his drug company’s culpability in anything here. The company paid $40M of his penalties since it was, after all, his company.
I remeber when this piece of shit did a reddit AMA a few years ago and got thousands of upvotes. People still support him and he thinks he did nothing wrong.
I remember him saying that he increased the price to make money from insurance companies, and that it was written or disclaimed that if you couldn't afford the new price of the pills, you could apply directly to the company and they were instructed to give out the pills to you for free.
It was some line he spoutrd off while being marched somewhere to court or something and definitely sounded like b*******, but does anybody know anything about that?
If it was written or disclaimed, it was somewhere in the middle of a 20 page block of legalese where no patient would ever find it.
Definitely, I'm just curious if there was anything to it at all or if he was just screaming it as a PR stunt as he was led away
sounded like b*******,
You can write "bananas" on the internet!
Didn’t think I’d hear this assholes name again.
Last time I heard anything from him he was telling Do Kwon, the owner of the cryptocurrrency scam Luna, that prison wasn't all that bad on a video call when Kwon actively had an arrest warrant out for him. He shouldn't be allowed to own anything of real value ever again with the shit he's pulled
Good.
Hey does anyone have the numbers on the 64mill fine vs how much he profited off his shitty moves?
Google says he was worth 45M so don’t really know.
Such an ungangster fall from grace after buying that Wu Tang album.
He was kind of a dick before that.
You don't even know the half of it, he played this MUD I was really into, his character's name was Vanmar, everyone hated him. Maybe a year or so before the pharmacy story broke he got perma banned from the game (oh god I'm gonna skim over a lot here, bear with me) he bought another player's super high skill character for iirc around 5k, went around bullying people who he couldn't take in pvp beforehand, then got the permanent ban for all of his accounts by forcibly role-playing a blowjob in a public area (a boat I think) on some other dudes character.
That was his second perma ban, he bought his way out of the first one, I don't recall how the first one came about.
Anyway, total twat. If you go deep in a search engine for Vanmar and DragonRealms you might find more info buried, a lot of its been lost to time and he bought one of the popular player forums around the game and locked it up so all that info is just lost.
...yo what
And I thought I hated him already...
Oh the humanity...
Vast understatement.
He was a real jerk.
Yeah. “Raging cock” is still being nice. He was such an asshole that he got little to no penalty relief from the courts on anything.
Something of a ninny
It'll never see the light of day. So sad.
Isn't this another case of "They were fine with him, until he started stealing from the rich instead of just the poor"
And if you don't think this is a daily occurrence - you're delusional.
He's in trouble because he pissed off the rich. Pharma companies all over are doing the exact same thing he did with pricing and there are no consequences for them.
No, that’s not the only reason he’s in trouble. It’s true Big Pharma definitely does bullshit all the time but it’s reductive and ignorant to claim that’s the only reason he was punished.