Drug costs are contentious because they're easily visible and often no covered by insurance. The other costs are obfuscated in complex billing and hidden under principle/agent veils.
E.g. my son has a peanut allergy and so we need to buy EpiPens. They were hundreds of dollars, and the vendor played MBA-nonsense games like requiring two to be purchased at a time. Meanwhile I was able to drive to Canada and buy the exact same thing (and as many or as few as I needed) for tens of dollars.
E.g. my son has a peanut allergy and so we need to buy EpiPens. They were hundreds of dollars, and the vendor played MBA-nonsense games like requiring two to be purchased at a time. Meanwhile I was able to drive to Canada and buy the exact same thing (and as many or as few as I needed) for tens of dollars.