Drug made famous by Shkreli’s 5,000% price hike is still $750 a pill

Found on Ars Technica on Saturday, 05 May 2018
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The outlet points out that the retail price for Daraprim (pyrimethamine) is still $750 a pill, up more than 5,000 percent from its previous price of $13.50 per pill. Worse yet, it’s not the only such case. In 2015 alone, more than 300 generic drugs saw prices increase by more than 100 percent.

Free market does not solve every problem. Especially not in combination with a patent system. Not when investors who do not want to cure patients have influence.