Yeah, I saw this article too. While I agree that that's one of the more immoral ways to make a buck that I've ever heard of, $2.2B sounds a bit excessive, particularly since a lot of other patients are affected and the guy doesn't have that much money. I guess it's a little bit like sentencing to 500 years or 4 consecutive life sentences or whatever. Maybe as a warning to pharmaceutical companies who do have billions of dollars worth of deep pockets not to try something similar?

I'm fine with this guy losing everything he has; I just don't like the idea that one victim is going to get it all, or the three-order-of-magnitude discrepancy between what "the jury awarded" and what the victim could conceivably receive.