Martin Shkreli sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding investors

True. But, nobody smirks like Pharma Bro. Even a hint of that in prison won’t turn out well for him. In the words of his own attorney--"There are times when I want to hold him and hug him, and there are times I want to punch him in the face" My sense of the matter is that he won't want either one of those options in jail.

No he just made a low cost treatment for pregnant women and HIV unavailable except to the rich. Utter indifference to the deaths of other caused by your greed makes you very punchable. laughing at that set of facts puts you at the top of the list.

1stSgt Nelson Kerr - That's how businesses work, if you don't like it you're more than welcome to create your own medications and sell them at a loss. And it's not like people don't have access to CBD oil and other herbal treatments (along with diet and exercise), which are readily available in all 50 states.

SPC Joseph Wojcik - He created nothing in this case, the medication was profitable at it original cost. the medicine was created before he was born.

It does show the need for stricter limits on the lengths of patents.

And saying that people have access o to charlatans pitching BS for Protestantism nothing. Daraprim fights a specific kind of problem that only people with compromised immune systems need, Advocating Herbals and diet to fix that problem is like asking a witch doctor to shake a rattle and chant as a cure. That is in the flat earth, Chem-trails and anti-vax zone of lunacy and serve only two purposes, it makes con-men rich and it makes foolish and ignorant suckers die.