7/3 Pricing in the News
Today's paper is a study in who absorbs the gap when the price on the label and what people can actually pay pull apart. A drug pricing program, a beverage company's package strategy, two antitrust rulings, and the day's wage-and-inflation data all describe the same underlying condition from different angles: sellers, payers, and regulators are all quietly renegotiating who bears the cost when price and affordability no longer line up on their own. The through-line across all
