I think Martin Shkreli is symptomatic of an Industry where Capitalism just does not work very well.
There was uproar when he increased the price of pyrimethamine by 5000% to 750$ a pill. Even after he left Turing pharma, that increase still stands. The announcement they where to offer discounts of up to 50% to Hospitals is just the hight of hypocrisy.
Charging a fortune for a 50 year old drug with horrid side effects and then putting the money into the development of yet another medication where there are allready plenty of alternatives, is just so typical of the profit driven behavour of this industry.
Have a look at how many slightly different drugs for high blood pressure there are on the market, that all do virtualy the same thing. I hope when we all start dying of Drug resistent infections someone will ask why no one is interested in developing new medication against them.
Martin Shkreli is just the tip of the iceberg. For me i would rather have someone who openly admits that he is motivated by greed, than someone who is going to lie to your face about what his motives are...