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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by seizethecheese on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:05PM (#50486412)
Yes, we should apply anti-trust law to the whole system, but this doesn't really pass the smell test. First, consider what proportion of medical costs is corporate profits. Maybe 5-15% as a guess? Then, excess monopoly profits would have to be a subset of this (what, 20%?). Sure, it would be nice as a one time adjustment but it's not going to fix the problem over decades.
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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by danaris on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:28PM (#50486726)
The problem is, with the way things are right now, it's basically impossible to tell how much is profit.

Profit, for various entities, is baked in at every level, in multiple ways that are very difficult to disentangle from the actual costs without getting real auditors on the ground with access to all the data.

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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by xur17 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:39PM (#50486922)
And it's not just profits, it's inefficiencies (in the service of making profits) everywhere.
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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by burnedbyhell on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:46PM (#50487932)
A whole ecosystem of unnecessary middlemen baked into laws and policies.
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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by method_capital on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:04PM (#50488207)
which the government is notoriously excellent at solving!
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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by franktankbank on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:58PM (#50487221)
The underlying revenue is ballooned.
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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by seizethecheese on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:11PM (#50487429)
Revenue can explode under perfect competition.
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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by altairprime on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:59PM (#50488121)
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Re:U.S. October PPI Rises 6.5% YoY, Highest in Nearly Four Y... by franktankbank on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:45PM (#50488699)
The administrative grift is a large part of the waste. Profits are just the grease for the shareholder.
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