How is it abusive for a country to band together and negotiate a single, good price?<p>The selling side <i>already</i> bands together to present a unified front. For many drugs there is a single supplier. This naturally gives them enormous power.<p>Yet when you do the exact same thing on the other side, suddenly this is somehow anti-market, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom, or what have you.<p>It&#x27;s the exact same thing with labor unions. When employers band together to present a unified front on employment terms, we call that a &quot;business&quot; and it&#x27;s so ingrained in how the world works that we have trouble conceiving of doing things any other way. But when employees do the <i>exact same thing</i> it&#x27;s looked upon with scorn by many.