How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn?

Re:How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn? by jjoonathan on Saturday November 30, 2019 @12:47AM (#21668779)

If every supplier in a market has the same overhead, it will pass through to customers, because suppliers cannot compete to eliminate it.

See also: high prices in destination shopping. The landlord sets the rent and all stores have to pay the rent, so all stores will have the same high prices no matter how stiff the competition between them.

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Re:How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn? by chrisseaton on Saturday November 30, 2019 @12:51AM (#21668792)

But the high debt is why they want to command a high fee, not why they are able to.

They’re able to due to restricted supply.

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Re:How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn? by stale2002 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:55AM (#21676320)

Yes, it is due to restricted supply. But the reason why restricted supply exists, is partially because of the high debt.

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Re:How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn? by johnkpaul on Saturday November 30, 2019 @05:36AM (#21669415)

Or perfectly inelastic demand. No one weighs the costs of life or death

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