It might prove the system fundamentally broken but it does it at the expense of people's health and lives. Not a tradeoff I'd care to make, personally.
Sure, but why should anyone care about what you personally think or what tradeoff you'd make? Are you the CEO of a pharma company? Or a politician who has some power over the healthcare industry? No? Then you don't matter.
The people who DO make these decisions think very differently from you. They're all part of the system, and the system is obviously fundamentally broken. Us sitting around and whining about sociopaths doing sociopathic things is not going to make them stop being sociopathic and making decisions that negatively affect peoples' health and lives.
It demonstrates a problem with the system, I'm not sure it is fundamental. There's lots of more widely used generic drugs that are available for a nominal fee.
We can sit around and whine about some guy exploiting a broken system, but that's not going to fix the problem. Everyone's focusing on one guy who exploited the system, while ignoring both tons of other people who exploited it just as much (and probably a lot more, as he pointed out on his website), as well as the brokenness of the system itself.
That's true, they should all be treated with the same amount of contempt. I think making this website is one of the few good things he's done in a while.
Shkreli is somewhat unique in terms of how much of an attention hog and braggart he is, though. Plus his stock fraud and general asshole persona.