Rejected petition Stop pharmaceutical companies from price gouging life saving drugs.

Pharmaceutical companies have been outrageously marking up prices of life saving drugs for no apparent reason other than profiting off of people's illnesses. For example Turing Pharmaceutical marked up the price of Daraprim which can be used to treat aids by 5000% because it could.

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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/psmag.com/amp/p/25c0aa131f8b?client=ms-android-samsung

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/21/novum-pharma-acne-cream-aloquin-price-gouging?client=ms-android-samsung

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Date submitted 11 December 2016
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