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The US healthcare system is best described as a pack of wolves negotiating about whose going to eat the sheep.
by bcrosby95 7y ago
The US healthcare system is best described as a pack of wolves negotiating about whose going to eat the sheep.
- munk-a 7y agoI think that's close to accurate, but a better description would be "A pack of wolves fighting over who is going to eat the sheep". The different market players here, PBMs, Payors, Manufacturers, Providers, Special Interest Groups, Advisory Boards and others - all are trying to bankrupt one another much harder than they're trying to bankrupt customers because customers have nearly no money to take - most of the inflow into this market isn't coming from the consumers but from the employers of the consumers (that are paying truly staggering amounts of money) and a lot of the damage you see to customers ends up being, essentially, collateral damage from one market player trying to stick it to another market player.