&gt;<i>Lets also not forget that if you can&#x27;t make money off lifesaving drugs, you also won&#x27;t bother to invent any new ones.</i><p>Let&#x27;s not forget that there are people who invent stuff and do research outside of monetary concerns too. Not to mention state funded research, which is how we got most of the foundations of the core science&#x2F;technology we have now (either that or heavily subsidized &quot;private&quot; research, including pharmas).<p>And let&#x27;s also not forget that by several accounts, the costs of research for most of those life saving drugs are dwarfed by the costs of marketing and other BS the companies spend their money on, and not even for them (as life saving drugs practically advertise themselves anyway) but for non life-saving drugs like Viagra and co...<p>&gt;<i>the media has decided he&#x27;s a villain</i><p>And for one, in this particular case, nobody can blame them!