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qcon99 t1_is7vhr5 wrote

Interesting, I did a google search and found this:

> In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by 5,455% (from US$13.50 to $750 per pill).

Turing is a pharmaceutical company he founded and was ceo of.

> In 2017, Shkreli was charged and convicted in federal court on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiring to commit securities fraud, unrelated to the Daraprim controversy.[7] He was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and up to $7.4 million in fines.

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LightweaverNaamah t1_is7rcvd wrote

If the controller they released a while back is indicative, they're not going to be super cheap by consumer peripheral device standards, but they will be amazingly inexpensive compared to the existing semi-equivalents.

Current stuff basically assumes you're either loaded or insurance is paying for it in terms of cost (plus they're made by smaller companies which have to make back their R&D plus exorbitant medical certification costs off of a small production run). This stuff will likely be at least somewhat affordable without insurance, but hopefully they have also gotten it certified so that insurance will have a chance of covering it for those who still can't afford it at sticker price.

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