>> The bulk of the rents is captured instead by providers of health-care services such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity.
> As always, no one reads anything.
The implication of the article was the "bulk of the rents" applies to healthcare costs in total, not just to drug costs. I.e. drug costs are not a huge part of the healthcare costs.
That by itself doesn't guarantee an understanding of why specific medication costs are sometimes 10x or whatever of other 1st world countries.
(but I didn't read the article; just the rest of the comments)
> As always, no one reads anything.
The implication of the article was the "bulk of the rents" applies to healthcare costs in total, not just to drug costs. I.e. drug costs are not a huge part of the healthcare costs.
That by itself doesn't guarantee an understanding of why specific medication costs are sometimes 10x or whatever of other 1st world countries.
(but I didn't read the article; just the rest of the comments)