Lets also not forget that if you can't make money off lifesaving drugs, you also won't bother to invent any new ones. It seems to make people angry that greedy folks make money by saving lives, but lets remember that one likely alternative to this is greedy folks don't make money by not saving lives.
Putting my investor hat on, I generally believe that making rich people pretty is a far less risky investment than making sympathetic sick people healthy - I won't become public enemy #1 by charging a fortune for Botox 2.0.
(None of this is meant as commentary on the specifics of this guy - the media has decided he's a villain, prosecutors can boost their career by targeting him, and I have no way to determine the truth of the matter.)
Putting my investor hat on, I generally believe that making rich people pretty is a far less risky investment than making sympathetic sick people healthy - I won't become public enemy #1 by charging a fortune for Botox 2.0.
(None of this is meant as commentary on the specifics of this guy - the media has decided he's a villain, prosecutors can boost their career by targeting him, and I have no way to determine the truth of the matter.)