The claim is largely true for drug development, but not for routine procedures. Those are expensive for unrelated, and largely pathological, reasons. I would s

The claim is largely true for drug development, but not for routine procedures. Those are expensive for unrelated, and largely pathological, reasons. I would suggest: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html or The Great American Drug Deal, by Peter Kolchinsky.