Medical Device Makers Profit From Waste, While GPOs Grow Fat on Kickbacks

BNET -- Ever wonder why there’s so much waste in the U.S. healthcare industry? In the medical device sector, at least, it’s all about money: wasted supplies and the inability of small, innovative firms to break into the market mean big bucks for major manufacturers such as Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Medtronic (MDX) and Becton Dickinson (BDX).