No, people are dying because of their own foolish actions. Crying because you can’t afford a drug that has been developed to prevent the consequences of your foolish actions from affecting you seems an awful lot like complaining that people who jump off cliffs without parachutes are dying because the parachutes are too expensive.
Don’t jump off the cliff in the first place!
You can say what you say about AIDs, but what about the poor people with bee sting allergy, and the sudden increase in the anti-allergy injections. Then the infamous man who raised the price astronomically on a drug for a rare disease. Well, at least he got his punishment. Most drug company CEOs are wildly overpaid as are many other CEOs, often $20million or more. The profit margin for drug companies is often two or three times that of most other businesses, because they can get away with high charges for a life saving drug that people cannot live without.
Actually, I have a solution for the outrageous pay of high level management. Only allow businesses to deduct the first $1million of salary on their corporate income taxes. Stockholders would soon object to the reduction in their dividends. I remember in 2008 when Goldman Sachs stockholders discovered that their top 3 executives were all paid over $65million. That spring 43% voted for a Proposal for a Stockholder’s Advisory on Compensation. While it was not a win, it was a high enough vote to scare the CEO into a dainty salary reduction to $25million the next year. That was during the time that Goldman Sachs had their man working for Bush 2.