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Every system will slowly creep to corruption and profit for a select few. It's a constant and never ending battle.

Just because it happens doesn't mean that we should just jump ship. It means we need to push back harder. In a case like this I'd say a criminal investigation might be warranted. Of your company could save millions but didn't for profit, then there is a paper trail and you follow that to those that made the decisions. You throw them in jail to make an example.

Then you improve laws to make sure captialism remains curbed and limited.

Money IS Power, and Power is something modern politics almost never talks about (though if you go look at older ideologies like Marxism, it was all the rage to talk about power).

So yeah, things will happen in certain ways, not just economically but at all levels, because those with lots of money use the power it gives them (which is insanelly more than what most other people have, since the curve of wealth distribution is pretty much an exponential one) to make things happen the way they want.

Once you look back at the whole system with an "old fashioned" prism of "where's the power and what is being done with it" and with awareness of Money as a giver of Power, a lot of things suddenly look different: for example Neoliberalism, with its desire for a Small State that does not regulate, is trying to weaken the power of the State - which in Democracy is controlled by representatives of voters (ideally, but often not quite) elected in a system were all votes count the same (i.e. all voters have the same amount of Power) - desires the de facto weakenning of the power of the State, hence of the evenly distributed Power of the Vote, which leaves Money (with it's hugelly uneven distribution) as the sole Power - in other words, Neoliberalism is an ideology to destroy Democracy, replacing with with an Oligarchy.

Mind you, there are lot of other vectors through which the Power Of Money subverts Democracy (such as the buying of politicians and the Press), but the realization that what 4 decades of Neoliberalism have been working towards is to change the system so that votes have little real power - de facto destroying what makes Democracy democratic and leaving voting as nothing more than a meaningless performance - explains A LOT of the problems we see nowadays in democratic nations, because Money has never been this close to be the one and only Power (even in the old days the Power of Money was second to the Power of The Monarch, though in the time of the Robber Barons in the US maybe it was a bit like now)

I should have been more clear. I totally get, and agree, with your point. And I realize that my topic was implied in the article because of that point. I was just disappointed the author didn’t explicitly call out the payers too. The whole system is broken, it’s not just the pharma companies. I think it’s important to shine a light on the entire ecosystem if we’re ever going to have a prayer of combatting it.

OK, thanks for the clarification.