Hospital leaders are tired of pleading in vain for drugcompanies to stop gouging the prices of critical medication. So anumber of them have finally come up with a plan to go around thepharmaceutical industry entirely bymanufacturing their own drugs.

“We are not going to lay down. We are going to go ahead and tryand fix it,” Marc Harrison, the CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, anonprofit Salt Lake City hospital group, told the New York Times.

Intermountain is partnering with three Catholic nonprofithospital groups – Ascension, Trinity Health and SSM Health – toform a new non-profit organization that will manufacture anddistribute drugs to hospitals, ideally for much cheaper thanfor-profit pharmaceutical companies.

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