I'd imagine the roadblocks are there to prevent people abusing the system. And the rest of the roadblocks are by the FDA and perhaps CBP, right? Otherwise people could just import the $1 pills and be fine.
If it turns out Turing was acting malicious and intentionally tried to block people from getting the medication despite knowing they were eligible, that's a different story. But I'm hardly going to take the word of biased medical professionals on it.
Martin put a face to all this, pointed out a huge flaw in this system and made money doing it. Then to top it off, he dares to laugh at everyone in the system about it (like in [1]).
If Martin had just hid behind normal pharma PR, few people would be outraged, it'd just be general grousing with little airtime.
>Martin put a face to all this, pointed out a huge flaw in this system and made money doing it.
Martin did not "point out a huge flaw", he got caught exploiting a huge flaw and is narcissistic enough to believe that he could sell that exploitation as something other than it is. The sad thing is that because he's "computer nerdy" a bunch of other "computer nerdy" people have fallen for the con.
>I'd imagine the roadblocks are there to prevent people abusing the system.
He could not have roadblocks and let the drug be cheap just like it was for decades. This is on Shkreli.
>But I'm hardly going to take the word of biased medical professionals on it.
Medical professionals are biased but the guy jacking up drug prices 5000% isn't? We're taking him at face value? pfft.
If it turns out Turing was acting malicious and intentionally tried to block people from getting the medication despite knowing they were eligible, that's a different story. But I'm hardly going to take the word of biased medical professionals on it.
Martin put a face to all this, pointed out a huge flaw in this system and made money doing it. Then to top it off, he dares to laugh at everyone in the system about it (like in [1]).
If Martin had just hid behind normal pharma PR, few people would be outraged, it'd just be general grousing with little airtime.
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EXsVfiFbp8