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https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/13/a-punch-in-the-guts/
TLDR deregulating medicine has been a disaster. Monopolistic hospitals, ridiculous drug IP laws, and medical price middlemen with bad incentives make the US medical system the most expensive in the imperial core countries with the worst outcomes.
My insurer bought my pharmacy, and my FSA provider bought my clinic. My wife's wellbeing is one acquisition or merger away from being fully at the whim of a single corporation in which every single component continues to fail to talk to another, and is fully disincentivized to do so.