The choice might be "buy this or die" but it's the government that makes it "buy this [at exorbitant cost] or die".
In this case, not even due to a patent, but because you can't sell a generic without lengthy, costly FDA approval.
Essentially the government is telling sick people, "you can't take this generic daraprim from India because we haven't approved it, so pay Martin Shkreli $750 a pill or fuck off and die".
It's asinine and it's 100% the government's fault this is happening. If Martin Shkreli hadn't done it, someone else would have.
Shkreli is at fault whether someone else would've done it or not. Someone else didn't do it, Shkreli did. He's responsible for his actions, and the government is responsible for making them possible.
In this case, not even due to a patent, but because you can't sell a generic without lengthy, costly FDA approval.
Essentially the government is telling sick people, "you can't take this generic daraprim from India because we haven't approved it, so pay Martin Shkreli $750 a pill or fuck off and die".
It's asinine and it's 100% the government's fault this is happening. If Martin Shkreli hadn't done it, someone else would have.