United healthcare CEO assassinated, the P&E edition {This is not a gun debate/statistics thread!}

[DavidNRockies]

For any that aren’t aware, the American Medical Association has a long and ignominious history of creating artificial scarcity of physicians to keep wages high:

The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create - Bill of Health

And then, there’s the market-distorting influence of BigPharma:

How can we fix medical pricing?

Unless, of course, they were barred from wielding that purchasing power: Under the Part D program, private prescription drug plans (PDPs) provide drug coverage to Medicare enrollees. PDPs negotiate drug rebates and other discounts with pharmaceutical manufacturers, which reduce program costs and allow plans to compete for beneficiaries based on lowering premiums and patient out-of-pocket costs. However, the federal government is prohibited from negotiating drug prices in the Part D program a…