{"id":182188,"date":"2015-11-25T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/25\/hes-back\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:32:00","slug":"hes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/25\/hes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Martin Shkreli?<\/p>\n<p>The parasite who (ironically) bought the anti-parasite, and then raised the price by over 5,000%.<\/p>\n<p>After the media sh%$ storm, he promised to lower the price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/11\/750pill-pharma-company-reverses-decision-to-lower-drug-price\/\">He lied<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Turing Pharmaceuticals AG will not reverse its decision to raise the price of a decades-old drug, Daraprim, by more than 5,000 percent, backing out of previous statements that it would cut the cost by the end of the year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an announcement on Tuesday, the company said that the list price of Daraprim, which jumped from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill earlier this year, will not change. Instead, the company will offer hospitals up to 50 percent discounts and will make other adjustments to help patients afford Daraprim, a drug used to treat a parasitic infection and often given to HIV patients.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Out of the goodness of their hearts though, they will be selling a smaller bottle to make it a bit easier for hospitals to stock the drug.<\/p>\n<p>We need villagers, torches, and pitchforks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Martin Shkreli? The parasite who (ironically) bought the anti-parasite, and then raised the price by over 5,000%. After the media sh%$ storm, he promised to lower the price. He lied: Turing Pharmaceuticals AG will not reverse its decision to raise the price of a decades-old drug, Daraprim, by more than 5,000 percent, backing out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,969,1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-evil","category-pharma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182188"}],"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=182188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}