What is pricing power?

How is it relevant in the Pharma Industry?

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This is how a typical transaction looks like. At the confluence of Pain and Pleasure, you have a transaction.

Now, what happens if we change both sides of the equation a slight bit?
Naval Ravikant once said -

The only difference between a healthy person and a sick person is, the healthy person may want a million things but the sick person wants only one.

Having said that, let’s look at the other part of the equation here.
Think of a sick person on the left and medicines on the right, the transaction then becomes irrational. This gives disproportionate pricing power.

Also, how does pricing power evolve?
Wherever we see there's a difference between the Consumer and the Customer, information asymmetry is created and that again gives the producer an upper hand.
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