PhRMA diss­es Marathon CEO—and PhRMA board mem­ber—Jeff Aronin af­ter lat­est price goug­ing con­tro­ver­sy

Af­ter main­tain­ing a stead­fast si­lence for the past five days, PhRMA is cut­ting Jeff Aronin loose.

The Marathon CEO and PhRMA board mem­ber trig­gered a tem­pest over his an­nounce­ment last Thurs­day evening that he would price his new­ly ap­proved steroid — a cheap, gener­ic of­fer­ing sold in many coun­tries around the world as de­flaza­cort — for $89,000 a year af­ter land­ing an ap­proval to mar­ket it for Duchenne mus­cu­lar dy­s­tro­phy. Ac­cord­ing to a num­ber of pa­tient ad­vo­cates, they’ve been buy­ing the drug from over­seas for about $1,000 a year.

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