Pretty sure he gave the drug to poor folks for free and only charged the ridiculous rates to insurance agencies that didn't fight it and rich folks.
He claimed he was using the extra cash to fund R&D, so he seems like a breddy cool bro from my standards.
Doesn't matter though. The FDA bans hundreds of cures every year (all illegal drugs are treatments for some condition or another by the way) because some group lobbied them to do so.
Literally remove government regulation on the market/restore common law in incidences of harm, and you'd see dirt cheap medication for everything under the sun.
>inb4 gubment is needed to keep people safe
Like the NSA and TSA are protecting us from terrorists, right?
>inb4 common law doesn't protect the common man
Common law forced an entire paper factory to close down because a farmer's cow was killed back before the establishment of the EPA. It works great.
>inb4 muh rich people get drugs and I don't!
Rich people almost always get access to these drugs first. The company tests it on people willing to pay them out the wazoo in funding opportunities, use those funds to ensure they can stay in business/continue future research, and then make the product cheaper for the masses. It keeps them from being a one-trick pony that falls apart after that specific drug becomes obsolete.