It really is a case of shooting the messenger. It isn't exactly clear what the messenger was saying, though, other than "This is one of the reasons why the US health care system is broken."

Every pharmaceutical company is doing exactly the same thing--overpricing their life-saving drugs--and he did it to such an extreme degree that ordinary people actually noticed it.

The only real reason to hate him is that he disrespected Wu-Tang Clan. (Read to the very end of the article.)