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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3712849" data-attributes="member: 43724">How can there be competition? For hospitals, you really don't have a choice nor a chance to compare prices when you are being rushed to the emergency room. For medication, thankfully a lot of the day to day meds are available in generic form, but some of the most needed (i.e. insulin and epi pens) those patents are closely guarded and the costs for those two alone have skyrocketed. It took several years and almost an act of congress to get a generic form of the epi pen to the market. The name brand of an epipen is almost $700 per set of 2 while the generic is half that, before insurance. You used to be able to get a set of epipens (name brand mind you) for $94 before Mylan bought the patent in 2007. Tell me how that model is working. The same thing happened with insulin. Both these drugs are life saving yet there are people everyday who die because they could not afford them. I'm sorry, but the capitalist model simply does not work for the medical field. Same reason it doesn't work for electric, gas and water companies.</blockquote>