It's not just drugs: every piece of equipment - think hospital beds and nuclear medicine machines - as well as all the consumables - from bandages to saline - at your local hospital runs through a cartel of "Group Purchasing Organizations" that do for hospital equipment what PBMs do for medicine:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/27/lethal-dysfunction/#luxury-bones
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Probably shouldn't be my new first post, but I haven't found the time to write something coherent about this social media account.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1434803410902167552.html
36 tweets that explain how cheese, snails, religion, underwear and spectacles all vitally contributed to the modern hardcover book.
Cory Doctorow