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This is a perfect example of how free markets fail when profiteering is not aligned with the user in mind. Their sole purpose is to increase sales of their pai

This is a perfect example of how free markets fail when profiteering is not aligned with the user in mind. Their sole purpose is to increase sales of their pain medication. The best way to do that is to advertise your drug to people who can push them, and even better if you can wear them down into making shitty decisions that involve them buying your drug. The free market can't fix this problem because it's hidden (intentionally) and because what the company wants is not what the user wants. The only recourse is legislation.

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kangaroozach 7y ago
Fascinating. So your saying the user must be aligned for the free market to work? How about employers choosing from a set of health insurance plans you can choose from? That’s a misalignment no? If I could get a coupon to buy my own insurance I may choose something better for me from an entire marketplace of plans. Instead I get stuck with the calculated decisions of people I don’t know trying to optimize their own profits while satisfying a set of people with very different needs and risk profiles than myself.