Don’t forget the 1:1 big pharma lobbyists to congress critter ratio. In some cases it’s 3:1 shelling out vacations, dinners, gifts, promises of board seats and employment post grifting, I mean post their term in congress. Basically WE are paying the bribes that big pharma uses to get crazy high prices. Maybe if new drugs weren’t so profitable we wouldn’t get all these new disorders that need a new drug to treat them.
Thanks for that reminder! That’s probably bigger than the payouts on lawsuits.