On: Considerations on Cost Disease

[projektfu]

Saline bags are $80/dozen. They used to be $25/dozen before the price increases. While manufacturers did increase prices in lockstep, they are limited by the ease of new entrants. You might end up paying $700 for a bag but that's the hospital setting the price.

[SilasX → projektfu]

Right, but the hospital's overcharging is exactly what I was citing as the problem.