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Zenodo
2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20390464 |
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- Current medical pricing sets cost proportional to patient displacement from health --- proportional to how sick the patient is. We argue that a fair system sets cost proportional to displacement cost: the physical work performed by the treatment. The gap between these is the medicine glitch, , where is the charged price and is the accumulated displacement cost of the treatment path. We show that this glitch is non-zero whenever treatment synthesis costs are low but disease severity is high --- the common case in pharmaceutical medicine. Using the displacement framework, we derive the conditions for fair pricing, characterize the fairness theorem for medical markets, and propose a volume-based profit model (DC8) compatible with universal access. The framework applies to drug pricing, insurance structures, and hospital billing.