> the practice of having very high prices that are steeply discounted for most customers is often an artifact of having the US government as one of your custome

> the practice of having very high prices that are steeply discounted for most customers is often an artifact of having the US government as one of your customers That's one of the main cases of sticker shock in the healthcare industrial complex. Price a cancer treatment that would still be profitable at $10k/month at $125k/mo and offer sweetheart discounts to insurance companies (and treat self-pay patients as charity case writeoffs).