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jtbaylyyesterday at 10:30 PM0 repliesview on HN

Yep. And it's worse than that.

80% of prescriptions are controlled by 3 companies. You can look up the FTC report on it. All three of them own or are owned by insurance companies.

The insurance companies had their profit percentage capped, and so the only way they could increase profits was by increasing their share of the pie. So they bought medical providers and prescription companies.

Now the insurance company is both the buyer and the seller, but not the one who pays. We pay. So they raise the prices of the drug, raise the cost of insurance, and make a lot more money while staying in their profit percent cap.

All the way around, this is the opposite of a free market and the FTC should be breaking these companies up. And as everybody knows, all the way around, it is immoral, too.