WHERE THE RIGHT GETS IT WRONG on health care...

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6. we make medical devices like we do videogame consoles

There's probably no more expensive way to make videogame consoles than the way we do. They are designed to be proprietary and trap consumers in vendor lock where their choice of games will be limited (Playstation doesn't have any new Halo games)... and those games that cross platforms are more expensive because they have to be redesigned for each console's specific code and hardware.

The entire process is designed to keep prices high. It seems much of our medical device and drug research is based on a similar game. And keeping this game going is expensive. Big Pharma pisses away more money on promotion than actual R&D. And that doesn't even include the high competitive overhead... high exec pay, profits, money wasted on more me-too drugs etc.