VIDEO: Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli: 5,000 Percent Price Boost ‘Not Excessive at All’
In case you hadn't heard, last month, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO and former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli got hold of the rights to parasite-zapping drug Daraprim, and then he had the bright idea to raise the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Now he has a big public relations problem and a self-created health care crisis on his hands.In case you hadn’t heard, last month, Turing Pharmaceuticals chief executive and former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli got hold of the rights to parasite-zapping drug Daraprim, and then he had the bright idea to raise the price from $13.50 to $750 a pill. Now he has a big public relations problem and self-created health care crisis on his hands. (Heck, he may even have the makings of a rap sheet.)
Shkreli has trotted out a number of tactics in response to the firestorm directed at him since news of the price hike broke. He’s gotten into ill-advised Twitter wars. He’s tried to reframe the astronomical boost in the cost of Daraprim as the product of philanthropy instead of the profit drive.
Watch as Shkreli tries, and fails, to cure the ensuing global epidemic of Daraprim sticker shock in an interview with CBS News:
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