{"id":182172,"date":"2015-12-01T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/01\/martin-shkreli-has-just-made-express-scripts-a-hero\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T00:03:00","slug":"martin-shkreli-has-just-made-express-scripts-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/01\/martin-shkreli-has-just-made-express-scripts-a-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Shkreli Has Just Made Express Scripts\u00ae a Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/oOcm2gh.gif\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/oOcm2gh.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>This is a bigger shock than Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>Deeply and ineluctiblky evil pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, in partnership with the compounding pharmacy Imprimis<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2015\/11\/30\/express-scripts-imprimis-to-offer-daraprim-alternative.html\">offer a $1.00 clone of Turing Pharmaceutical&#8217;s Dataprim anti-parasite drug<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Express Scripts, the largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S., said on Tuesday it will partner with Imprimis Pharmaceuticals to provide a $1 alternative to Daraprim, the 62-year-old drug for a rare parasitic infection. In September, the company that owned the drug stoked outrage when it hiked the drug&#8217;s price by more than 5,000 percent overnight.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Imprimis, a California compounding pharmaceutical company, said in October it would make the alternative\u2014a compounded formulation of the active ingredient in Daraprim, pyrimethamine, and another drug, leucovorin\u2014available for $99 for a 100-count bottle, or less than $1 per pill.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">That compares with a price of $750 per pill for the drug provided by Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company that acquired Daraprim earlier this year and dramatically raised its price from $13.50 a tablet to $750. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Express Scripts<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> is so evil and incompetent that it stuns Richard Bruce Cheney, but Martin Shkreli has just allowed them to be heroes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a mindf%$# on a level I would heretofore think impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bigger shock than Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker&#8217;s father. Deeply and ineluctiblky evil pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts\u00ae, in partnership with the compounding pharmacy Imprimis\u00ae, will offer a $1.00 clone of Turing Pharmaceutical&#8217;s Dataprim anti-parasite drug: Express Scripts, the largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S., said on Tuesday it will partner &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1045,1018,1019,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-insurance","category-pharma","category-schadenfreude","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}