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Tutontow
Tutontow
Oct 26, 2015
10:11am
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Originally posted by: alanleroy
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Originally posted by: Tutontow
I just don't understand how any business can justify even a 25% increase much less a 50% increase. The problem is the medical world has us by the short hairs. Here is another example of how these people have no conscience.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?_r=0

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.


And now a competitor will offer an alternative treatment for $1.00 a pill. Isn't competition grand?

https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/23/news/companies/imprimis-daraprim-turing-martin-shkreli/


That is great news. Thanks for sharing.
Roulette Man
Roulette Man
Oct 26, 2015
10:21am
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Originally posted by: Tutontow
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Originally posted by: alanleroy
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Originally posted by: Tutontow
I just don't understand how any business can justify even a 25% increase much less a 50% increase. The problem is the medical world has us by the short hairs. Here is another example of how these people have no conscience.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?_r=0

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.


And now a competitor will offer an alternative treatment for $1.00 a pill. Isn't competition grand?

https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/23/news/companies/imprimis-daraprim-turing-martin-shkreli/


That is great news. Thanks for sharing.


It is great news.

This guy looks like a jerk. Let us hope karma gets more of him.


MARTIN SHKRELI

esteskefauver
esteskefauver
Oct 26, 2015
11:28am
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: esteskefauver
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Originally posted by: Tutontow
I just don't understand how any business can justify even a 25% increase much less a 50% increase. The problem is the medical world has us by the short hairs. Here is another example of how these people have no conscience.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?_r=0

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.


From his wiki page he appears to be an Ashkenazi Jew. Color me not surprised. Hint: Bernie Madoff is an Ashkenazi Jew.
That's an ironic icon you got there, Estes.


That Jews are the most crooked people in the civilized world is a well known fact. Ashkenazi Jews even more so than the rest. Eastern Europe as a whole is the most crooked area in the civilized world so it's not surprising. A friend, whose father was a German Jew and mother a Russian Jew emphatically says Eastern European Jewish culture is more crooked. He also jokes that the shortest book in the world is the book "Jewish Ethics".

I've been in business for myself a long time. When I first started dealing with these guys I found it was a whole different ballgame. They would go back on their word over a few hundred dollars. Total culture shock. Millionaires sullying their reputation for such small amounts of money is mind boggling to me. They have more know-it-alls than average too. Clark Howard jokes that if you put 10 Jews together arguing a topic they'll produce 11 different opinions.

I try to look at the individual though. There are plenty of Ashkenazi Jews more honest than I am. I'm glad I learned my lesson early and will continue to scrutinize Jews more closely whenever money is involved as long as I live.

malibber2
malibber2
Oct 26, 2015
4:04pm
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The good news: Two new companies are offering coverage.

The bad news: There are no primary care physicians within 50 miles of me that accept either of the new companies. One plan predicts I will have $14,000 in out of pocket costs in addition to the premium. The other plan predicts I will have $13,500 in out of pocket costs plus the premium. Screw Cross has jacked all of their premiums up off the charts in my county. I am assuming the marketplace folks twisted those two other company’s arms to get them to provide coverage as there aren’t physicians in my area that are in network.

drmilled
drmilled
Oct 26, 2015
5:58pm
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You ignorant liberal sheep are now reaping what you sowed by electing that liar Obeyme. Hopefully, whoever gets elected as the next President will make their first act one of repealing Obeymecare.
Don
Don
Oct 26, 2015
6:50pm
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Originally posted by: malibber2
One plan predicts I will have $14,000 in out of pocket costs in addition to the premium. The other plan predicts I will have $13,500 in out of pocket costs plus the premium. Screw Cross has jacked all of their premiums up off the charts in my county.


"It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
__Representative Nancy Pelosi, 9 March, 2010 - commenting on the Obamacare legislation

Hmm, . . . malibber2 is now learning just how "exciting" Obamacare can be.
LurkerPoster
LurkerPoster
Oct 27, 2015
4:32am
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Originally posted by: esteskefauver
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Originally posted by: forkushV
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Originally posted by: esteskefauver
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Originally posted by: Tutontow
I just don't understand how any business can justify even a 25% increase much less a 50% increase. The problem is the medical world has us by the short hairs. Here is another example of how these people have no conscience.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?_r=0

The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.


From his wiki page he appears to be an Ashkenazi Jew. Color me not surprised. Hint: Bernie Madoff is an Ashkenazi Jew.
That's an ironic icon you got there, Estes.


That Jews are the most crooked people in the civilized world is a well known fact. Ashkenazi Jews even more so than the rest. Eastern Europe as a whole is the most crooked area in the civilized world so it's not surprising. A friend, whose father was a German Jew and mother a Russian Jew emphatically says Eastern European Jewish culture is more crooked. He also jokes that the shortest book in the world is the book "Jewish Ethics".

I've been in business for myself a long time. When I first started dealing with these guys I found it was a whole different ballgame. They would go back on their word over a few hundred dollars. Total culture shock. Millionaires sullying their reputation for such small amounts of money is mind boggling to me. They have more know-it-alls than average too. Clark Howard jokes that if you put 10 Jews together arguing a topic they'll produce 11 different opinions.

I try to look at the individual though. There are plenty of Ashkenazi Jews more honest than I am. I'm glad I learned my lesson early and will continue to scrutinize Jews more closely whenever money is involved as long as I live.


You would have made NSDAP officials in Germany proud a little over 70 years ago!
Don
Don
Oct 27, 2015
5:10am
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Originally posted by: esteskefauver
From his wiki page he appears to be an Ashkenazi Jew. Color me not surprised. Hint: Bernie Madoff is an Ashkenazi Jew.

Martin Shkreli's OK Cupid page indicates his religion is: "Christian and laughing about it"

Wikipedia reports: "Shkreli, the son of Albanian and Croatian immigrants, was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Wikipedia also reports on the name Shkreli:
"Shkreli is a historical tribe (and region) in Northern Albania (see Malësia). With expansion of the Ottoman Empire, part of the tribe migrated to Rugova beginning in ca. 1700, after which they continued to migrate into the Sandžak region (today in Serbia and Montenegro). The Shkreli tribe converted into Islam in the 18th century, while the Shkreli in Sandžak (known as Škrijelj/Serbian: ???????) over time were Islamized and today declare Bosniak ethnicity. There are minor families which still adhere to Christianity (most of whom are Catholic, the rest Orthodox)."
This reports suggests the likelihood that Mr. Skhreli is much more likely to be Islamic or Christian than Jewish.


Boilerman
Boilerman
Oct 27, 2015
7:39am
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Boiler has done business with many Jews over the years. One was a lying pig, and the balance were reasonable hard nosed business people that I could trust.
rdwoodpecker
rdwoodpecker
Oct 27, 2015
7:45am
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How could have anyone with a working brain whatsoever think that the government would lower the working man's health insurance?
This clown and his followers in office have found enough fools to drink the kool-aid that the government is the answer for everything!
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