Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious #US healthcare profiteering announced
Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples
The 2024 “winners” of the annual #Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of #profiteering and #dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the #LownInstitute, an independent healthcare #thinktank
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering
#UnitedHealthcare is #2 on the annual #Shkreli awards list* for most egregious US healthcare profiteering — the competition is tough
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And the first annual #LuigiMangione award will go to… ?
accepting nominees…
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight #HumanRights #CapitalismKills #Capitalism
*not linking to the award site b/c they use #AI generated images 🚫🤖 🛑🤖 #ShutdownAI #StopAI
https://theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering
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De veroordeelde Amerikaanse zakenman Martin Shkreli moet kopieën inleveren die hij heeft gemaakt van het unieke Wu-Tang Clan-album dat hij in 2015 voor 2 miljoen dollar kocht. Dat schrijft de Amerikaanse nieuwswebsite The Wrap.
De veroordeelde Amerikaanse zakenman Martin Shkreli moet kopieën inleveren die hij heeft gemaakt van het unieke Wu-Tang Clan-album dat hij in 2015 voor 2 miljoen dollar kocht. Dat schrijft de Amerikaanse nieuwswebsite The Wrap.
Via #CTV News
#MartinShkreli, once dubbed "#PharmaBro" 4 boosting price of life-saving drug, was ordered by fed judge Mon 2 turn over all copies of #WuTangClan's unreleased "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" album to his lawyers by Fri
Judge #PamelaKChen in #Brooklyn wrote #Shkreli must produce all copies of what is sometimes referred to as the world's rarest album & report names of anyone he distributed the #music to by Sept. 30, along with any revenues he received from it
Martin Shkreli, once dubbed 'Pharma Bro' for boosting the price of a life-saving drug, was ordered by a federal judge Monday to turn over all copies of Wu-Tang Clan's unreleased 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' album to his lawyers by Friday.
Surprising just about no one, a wallet holding around 20% of the supply of the $DJT Trump-themed memecoin suddenly dumped its holdings, crashing the token price by around 90%. The token price had briefly spiked in June, when it was falsely reported that the token was "an official Trump token". However, the token's price had already dwindled since that time, and before the sudden dump.People were quick to blame those behind the project, primarily "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli (who has been accused of dumping his own token before). Shkreli was quick to shift the blame to Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, who he has also claimed is behind the token (although this has not been independently confirmed). However, the owner of the wallet that dumped its tokens is not definitively known.
#5yrsago One of pharma’s most notorious gougers is going bankrupt, but 2019 is a banner year for #shkreli-grade pharma price-hikes https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/infamous-pharma-company-declares-bankruptcy-after-3900-price-hike/
#5yrsago Chasing down the list of potential #Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with “#PredictivePolicing” https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3m7jq/dozens-of-cities-have-secretly-experimented-with-predictive-policing-software
#5yrsago Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a #MindControl ray https://memex.craphound.com/2019/02/06/amazon-is-using-purchase-data-to-sell-targeted-ads-which-is-creepy-but-not-because-theyve-invented-a-mind-control-ray/
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Appeals court upholds ‘pharma bro’ Martin #Shkreli lifetime ban from drug industry
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