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That doesn't seem too strange when you consider that those two types of companies have different operating models. A drug company is in the business of taking relatively cheap goods and converting them to very expensive goods, in other words adding a lot of value. A insurance company/PBM is mostly in the business of skimming a percentage off transactions.



It is not strange, but it also contradicts claims about managed care organizations earning tons of money. It is not a business you go into to get super rich.


LMFAO. Express Scripts (the biggest PBM) was bought for 67 billion! They have never saved a patient life but are bigger than most pharma companies.


That sounds irrelevant to my point that MCOs do not make a lot of profit.




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