thrwawayjun

In areas the mafia doesn't exist (an analogy the title makes by calling it a racket), the cost of paying the mafia is $0. So it might be £30/vial no mafia fee in the U.K., and the same + $10,000 mafia fee in America.

However, doesn't some of that mafia fee go toward R&D? (Developing new drugs)? Why isn't the price to the NHS slightly higher, also in part to fund research? It's hard to imagine $10,000 just gets pocketed by Don Carleone, without any of it going back to the laboratory.

Is the analogy really sound?