In theory maybe. The data suggests that the same companies are providing vaccines and drugs.

Competition in the US Health System certainly doesn't do a good enough job at driving costs down...

I don't like to use these strong words, but I do find it dangerous and reckless when people with nearly no medical knowledge want to reason against proven methods on the basis of costs and the hatred of "evil, profit seeking companies".

If mistakes were made it's up to the medical establishment to judge about and avoid them in the future. Anticapitalists should not play a role in that.

I don't believe what I'm reading here: You suggest that the medical industry is more or less a monopoly / oligopoly with lack of competition and at he same time barf at people dependent on that system to keep out of the discussion? Maybe you (or I) missed a sarcasm tag ... Otherwise it might be the place to remind you that the medical industry does not operate on a free market because sick people mostly don't have much to choose from. I cannot imagine why the profit seeking aspect of that industry should not be questuined and/or observed?

Your retort is baseless since I didn't say anything of the nonsense you are trying to make me say.

There is an economic aspect to health care. I am accusing those who want to make recommendations on (extremely weak) economic grounds without any medical and scientific reasoning.

Baseless anticapitalist conspiracy theories should not play a role in healthcare.