Some thoughts on $McKesson(MCK)$ Most patients never encounter McKesson. Doctors prescribe drugs, pharmacies dispense them, and manufacturers produce them. But McKesson actually moves the medicine through the system. They function less like a healthcare company and more like infrastructure. They operate a massive logistics network that moves pharmaceuticals from manufacturers to hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics across the US. Once something becomes embedded this deeply into a system, it stops looking like a business and starts looking like plumbing. From the outside the economics appear unusual. McKesson generates hundreds of billions in annual revenue, but operates on thin margins. Enormous volumes are moved, but with only small margins attached

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