Those are insurers. The article is about the hospital supply market. In particular, the completely unregulated part of the hospital supply chain.

So.. are you merely misinformed, or willfully ignorant?

> The article is about the hospital supply market.

That's fine. The sentence I'm objecting to is about the US healthcare system.

Again: that is a sentence you made up. You ignored the "it is even more" clause, which makes it clear that he believes the current market dynamics presage what would happen in a deregulated market. What's worse, in order to "object" to the sentence, you deliberately misquoted the comment and attributed your broken misquote to him.