Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli who jacked up AIDS pill price by 5,000% says he should have charged even more

The drug company CEO who jacked up the price of a life-saving pill to $750 from $13.50 said he wishes he had raised the price even more.

Turing Pharmaceuticals chief Martin Shkreli is now facing new lower-priced competition and government scrutiny. But he said at a forum hosted by Forbes magazine Thursday that the outcry over his company’s list price for a Daraprim pill didn’t cause him any regrets.

“I probably would have raised prices higher, is probably what I should have done.” said Shkreli, 32. “I could have raised it higher and made more profits for our shareholders, which is my primary duty."

 

He continued, “No one wants to say it, no one's proud of it, but this is a capitalist society, capitalist system and capitalist rules, and my investors expect to me to maximize profits, not to minimize them, or go half, or go 70%, but to go to 100% of the profit curve that we're all taught in MBA class."

The Renegade Pharmacist, New Graphic on reaction of Diet Coke to the body, an hour after drinking.....

It's Diet Coke's turn to fizzle out.

The new graphic from The Renegade Pharmacist shows what happens to the human body within an hour of consuming a can of Diet Coke.

The same health blogger who published a graphic on Coke’s deliterious effect on the body is now targeting diet soda.