Albert Hirschman argued that voice works only when exit is credible. For 80 years, the pharmaceutical industry has had voice without exit, and the PBS has had little reason to listen. The private market finally gives the industry somewhere else to go. The question is whether it will use it.
The effort to change an institution from within, works best when exit is possible
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