Also a pharmaceutical company has complete monopoly over a formula for something like 10 years.
The country I am at has "stolen" medicine recipes before. For expensive AIDS medicine.
Was criticized for it, but did it anyway.
Sure, the drug is old enough to have equivalents made by other companies but check out how this echoed for the guy's company and other companies within the bio technology field:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/drug-683927-shkreli-price.html
Politicians would sure bite that bone. Why not? The potential for more votes is sure there... (lol)