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meow2u3

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1. Sticky pricing price fixing
Wed Jun 28, 2017, 02:19 PM
Jun 2017
The United States suffers from a bizarre phenomenon economists call "sticky pricing," where prices of competing medical services simply rise in tandem.


What a euphemism! That's just a fancy word for price fixing. The health care industry has been engaging in collusion at best and price fixing at worst. And the repukes look the other way while the industry robs Americans blind.
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