Ten extremes
Click one. Then the next.
The same move as the saline bag: what it costs to make, then what they charge. Drugs, implants, a year of premiums, a night in Japan.
A bag of salt waterThe bag costs two dollars. They charge you like it is medicine.
$1.80 vs $70
A nickelAspirin costs a nickel. They bill it like a procedure.
$0.05 vs $18
Highest and lowest in the cabinetSame cabinet. A nickel, and a cancer dose.
$0.05 vs $16,800
A drug from 1921Insulin is a hundred years old. The list is still a ransom.
$35 vs $495
The same moleculeTylenol in a bag. Hospital edition.
$28 vs $240
A piece of titaniumThe implant is four thousand. The night is forty.
$4,200 vs $41,632
A unit of bloodThe blood center charges hundreds. The hospital bills a thousand.
$220 vs $1,200
Half the moneyFive people hold the pile.
$374 vs $67,321
Before anyone is sickThey paid this in. The middle person got this out.
$1,369 vs $26,993
The same nightJapan pays $432 for the night. We pay $3,180.
$432 vs $3,180