I could spend all day blogging endless examples of the dystopia of the modern American medical care delivery system (not the people... just the processes involved).
The cough drop example comes from a Reddit post where the discussion thread includes a lot of ranting but also some informed perspectives on why such things happen.
Summary from Reddit: many layers of profitability.
ReplyDeleteEliminate them and prices will go down. As will insurance companies. And that's just fine.