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Animation - Martin Shkreli increases Daraprim price 5500%: Turing jacks AIDS drug up to $750 a pill

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NEW YORK CITY — It's no secret big pharma is greedy and douchey, but Turing Pharmaceuticals — founded by 32-year-old Martin Shkreli — is by far the greediest and douchiest after this little weasel jacked up the price of Daraprim, which costs about $1 to make, from $ per pill to $750 per pill. Certain pharmaceutical companies have been using a relatively new strategy of acquiring old, neglected drugs and turning them into costly 'specialty' drugs. Daraprim treats toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection th

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