The pharma exec was clear, his intent
Was to maximize his drug's economic rent.
Shocked docs were jeering
His health profiteering;
He raised the price five thousand percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/09/21/ceo-of-company-that-raised-the-price-of-old-pill-hundreds-of-dollars-overnight-calls-journalist-a-moron-for-asking-why/
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Douchebag of the year.
ReplyDeleteThe drug is 60 years old and there is no generic option?
ReplyDeleteGood use of limerick form...
ReplyDeletePeter Billing that was my question. Patent and copyright laws are nuts.
ReplyDeletePeter Billing, this guy bought up the only generic manufacturer.
ReplyDeleteHe raised the price so high that it will be profitable for another outfit to produce it at a much lower price point, but still well above the original. But -- he'll be rolling in Rolls and Rolex's before production can begin.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Freeman so its open to other manufacturers?
ReplyDeleteEdit: posted before Walter Hawn's response. I get it.
i have a Pill that will cure his douchebaggery for the low low price of $0.50 and administered via Smith & Wesson. Unfortunate side effect is the irrational police state will detain me indefinitely as I will be unable to prove his behavior has improved when he stops responding due to blood loss.
ReplyDeleteMark Durham I'm a fan of Craig Froehle and limericks and this post. However I disagree about the form. This is not "good" limerick form. Charming still, perfectly excusable and not worth complaining about, but the meter isn't consistent or standard.
ReplyDeleteThe standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables. The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but catalexis (missing a weak syllable at the beginning of a line) and extra-syllable rhyme (which adds an extra unstressed syllable) can make limericks appearamphibrachic (ta-TUM-ta).
This one is a bit all over, which is fine. Please don't stop writing them! :) lines three and four were close enough I'd say.
Plus, it isn't obscene (except morally)
There once was an ass hole stock trader
ReplyDeleteWhose soul was as black as Darth Vader.
Now when you get sick
You'll go broke to this prick
I hope he gets raped by a Satyr
My modest contribution to pile on the bile