> assumes a rational actor model which doesn't model what people actually do Sure, but in the case of drug prices in countries with national health systems we

> assumes a rational actor model which doesn't model what people actually do Sure, but in the case of drug prices in countries with national health systems we don't really have any reason to think that the model doesn't reflect reality. > the deadweight loss in your evaluation can instead be interpreted Yes, this is exactly my point! The science of economics makes no judgement about the relative moral values at play here. That may very well be a tradeoff people want to make. Or it might not. Economics doesn't comment on that question one way or another, it nearly provides data on the practical outcome of the decision.