Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 14:47:26 GMT
From an article by Mkt Watch:
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Vermont Senator bernie sanders has one thing in common with hillary clinton: He’s not big on overpriced pharmaceuticals.
That became glaringly apparent this week when sanders rejected a donation from Martin Shkreli. Shkreli is a former hedge-fund manager and the chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, which increased the price of drug Daraprim—used to treat life-threatening infectious diseases—to $750 a dosage from $13.50 after acquiring the treatment in August.
The price increase, highlighted in a September New York Times article, was blasted by presidential hopeful clinton and has turned Shkreli into one of the more vilified figures in the health-care business, particularly after an interview on CNBC in which he attempted to justify the hefty price spike.
sanders, who also has presidential aspirations, had this to say via a spokesman about a donation from Shkreli, according to an article from Mashable:
“He is the poster boy for pharmaceutical company greed. We don’t want his stinkin’ money.”
Shkreli appeared to be enthusiastic about donating to “his boy”:...
His tone changed after reports of Sanders’s rejection of his “stinkin’ money” surfaced:
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