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The Bush-Obama Rx Shortages-Critical cancer drugs are in short supply thanks to price controls
WSJ-editorial ^ | 11-2-11 | WSJ

Posted on 11/02/2011 5:12:58 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

Shortages have more than tripled since 2005, according to the University of Utah's Drug Information Service, and by the end of the year more than 300 products are likely to be back-ordered, in short supply or totally unavailable. Some are anesthetics and pain therapies, others emergency room "crash cart" drugs.

But most—about 70% in 2010—belong to the class of drugs known as "sterile injectables" that are mainstays of the chemotherapy arsenal, such as paclitaxel or cytarabine.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: controls; drugs; executiveorder; fda; order; price; rx
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1 posted on 11/02/2011 5:13:00 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Not to worry

On Friday late Lord obama signed an executive order directing that the FDA take charge and make more drugs appear

stroke of the pen, law of the land


2 posted on 11/02/2011 5:24:51 AM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
From the EXECUTIVE ORDER REDUCING PRESCRIPTION DRUG SHORTAGES:

"The FDA shall communicate to the Department of Justice (DOJ) any findings that shortages have led market participants to stockpile the affected drugs or sell them at exorbitant prices. The DOJ shall then determine whether these activities are consistent with applicable law. Based on its determination, DOJ, in coordination with other State and Federal regulatory agencies as appropriate, should undertake whatever enforcement actions, if any, it deems appropriate."

While I have a problem with big international pharma, big international chemical companies, and crony capitalism (think replacing CFC inhalers with garbage HFA ones), I am also aware of the cost of developing new medications and manufacturing quality generics.

This all reminds me of Hillary's mandate to make vaccines more available by in essence regulating that manufacturers run at a loss.
3 posted on 11/02/2011 5:36:59 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: silverleaf

Overlay this story withe recent public awareness radio and print ads claiming the number one health issue is the abuse of prescription drugs, and the access to prescription drugs to those who are not in true need, and I think you begin to see what the government is up to.


4 posted on 11/02/2011 5:37:20 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: blackdog

Oh and those stories made it sound like MEDICARE patients are prescription drug abusers

yes, there IS an agenda

Even the “Maybe they need to take a pain pill” solution is too expensive for obama’s death panels


5 posted on 11/02/2011 5:41:11 AM PDT by silverleaf (Common sense is not so common - Voltaire)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
How can this be?

You can't walk in a drug store without someone trying to stick a flu vaccine in your arm.

6 posted on 11/02/2011 5:49:13 AM PDT by LoveUSA (You don't notice the night light until it gets dark.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

“Based on Hillary Clinton’s proclamation of a nonexistent crisis, Congress had been stampeded into passing unnecessary legislation. And even though the worst features of the administration plan had been dropped, the country was still stuck with a program that was more costly, cumbersome and wasteful than the one it replaced.”

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/remember-hillary-clintons-vaccine-fiasco

the Socialist Sewer in DC continues to shower down upon Americans’s..all the time shouting about how hard its raining out there...


7 posted on 11/02/2011 5:54:11 AM PDT by mo
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I have a friend who is getting ready to receive cancer treatments (chemo).

She said the doctor told her he wanted to prescribe a certain medication, but because the drug company is “greedy,” and they can’t get the price they want for it, it’s in short supply, so he had to prescribe something else.


8 posted on 11/02/2011 5:54:24 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: silverleaf
When I have severe pain, I stop by my doctor's office unannounced and request a nubain shot or a tuidol shot. I've had several orthopedic surgeries and have an occasionak back spasm which incapacitates me. Oral meds do very little to deal with pain. A shot of the above, or demerol if you can have someone else drive you is best.

Any meds injected are far more effective than oral pills. That also goes for antibiotics, anti-inflamatories, prednisone, and vitamins.

9 posted on 11/02/2011 5:58:52 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
She said the doctor told her he wanted to prescribe a certain medication, but because the drug company is “greedy,” and they can’t get the price they want for it, it’s in short supply, so he had to prescribe something else.

I'll bet that doc's patients would say the same thing about trying to get a medicare appointment with the doc who likely limits the number of medicaid / medicare patients he sees because he can't get the price he wants needs for it. So his medicare appointments are in short supply and the patients muse see someone else or wait.

10 posted on 11/02/2011 6:10:35 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
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To: algernonpj

I think the problem with the asthma inhalers can be laid at the feet of the Enviros. They don’t like the propellent in those canisters. Therefore, they MUST be banned.!!!! SIGH !!!!

The other inhalers cost ALOT more—& are available ONLY be prescription, which requires a repetitive round of appearances at your doctor to keep getting the prescriptions.

It is the EPA & the Enviros who are to blame.


11 posted on 11/02/2011 6:45:08 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: algernonpj
While I have a problem with big international pharma, big international chemical companies, and crony capitalism

You seem to have a problem with "big" companies which, at least to me, means you have a problem with success. I'm sure you also have a problem with "big" food, "big" oil, "big" insurance, "big" medical device, "big" transportation, "big" mining, "big" retail, "big" finance, "big" information and on and on.

The whole "big is bad" meme is a bunch of nonsense. If you have a problem with crony capitalism then your problem is with "big" government because government is the enabler of crony capitalism. Instead of railing on the private industries that created the massive amount of wealth we enjoy today, your ire should be directed at the big government that allows the quid pro quo to exist.

(think replacing CFC inhalers with garbage HFA ones

Again, your problem isn't with private industry. Do you think "big" bad pharma wanted to make the changes that will render their medicines less effective? Good grief. This is a result of government overreach. Period.

I am also aware of the cost of developing new medications and manufacturing quality generics.

If true, how in the heck can you complain about "big" pharma and your alleged crony capitalism? It costs hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade in time to bring a NME to market. The FDA kills most of these new offerings before they even reach the clinical trial stage. Yet, you want us to believe that "big" pharma and the fedgov are joined at the hip helping each other out. What a pantload.

12 posted on 11/02/2011 7:12:17 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

I’m still waiting for Congress to grill “Big Education”
on why college costs are up 900% since 1978...


13 posted on 11/02/2011 7:29:19 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: silverleaf
Lord obama signed an executive order directing that the FDA take charge and make more drugs appear

Start shipping them before Christmas or get in line behind the bankers for your public flogging in Yankee Stadium next summer.
14 posted on 11/02/2011 7:41:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Mase
... You seem to have a problem with "big" companies which, at least to me, means you have a problem with success. ...
If you have a problem with crony capitalism then your problem is with "big" government because government is the enabler of crony capitalism. ...
The FDA kills most of these new offerings before they even reach the clinical trial stage. Yet, you want us to believe that "big" pharma and the fedgov are joined at the hip helping each other out. ...


Maybe that's what it means in your mind, but I notice you ignored the possibility that only 'big' companies have the resources to indulge in crony capitalism and deter competition from new and small companies. We live in an age of profit "uber alles", an age in which the only obligation companies have is to earn profit for their stock holders.

To deny that there are those out there who place money and profit above all other things is to deny reality. There is a dark side to human nature that Bastiat in The Law refered to as the ‘common tendency’ of ‘mankind’ ‘when they can’ to ‘live and prosper at the expense of others’.

Big pharma wouldn't use lobbyists on K street to pass on campaign contributions to buy favors now would they?
The FDA didn't violate its own regulations to speed all those new inferior HFA inhalers to market when there already was a medical exception to the Montreal Protocol did they?
Dupont didn't join up with the greenies on the theory that chloroflourcarbons cause the ozone hole because their patent on an efficient process for producing chloroflourcarbons did they?
Big pharma didn't bribe and subsidize:
The American Lung Association (ALA)
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
The Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA)
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI)
The American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)
The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI)
The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)
The American Thoracic Society (ATS)
to 'educate' consumers on how to use the new HFA inhalers did they?
The FDA didnt' have the gall to tell consumers of asthma inhalers, i.e. people have difficulty breathing, that "It is important to remember that it is the deep breath that you take with each puff that gets the medication into your lungs, not the force of the spray." did they?
15 posted on 11/02/2011 10:24:59 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: ridesthemiles

It is a great deal more complex than that. see post # 15.


16 posted on 11/02/2011 10:26:37 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: algernonpj
Maybe that's what it means in your mind, but I notice you ignored the possibility that only 'big' companies have the resources to indulge in crony capitalism and deter competition from new and small companies

Yet the global economy is more competitive today than it has been at any other time in our history. You're whining.

Big companies cannot participate in crony capitalism unless they are enabled by government. You keep missing the truth here that government is the problem, not the industries you continue heaping your animus upon. You appear to have a great deal of ire for American industry, but little contempt for our overbearing government. Very telling.

We live in an age of profit "uber alles", an age in which the only obligation companies have is to earn profit for their stock holders.

You and I have always lived in an age of "profit uber alles." It is the profit motive that allows you to live the incredible life you do today. I keep detecting an anti-capitalist bent to your posts. What's up with that?

To deny that there are those out there who place money and profit above all other things is to deny reality

You're not making sense again. I said your problem should be with government but you don't seem to think government is the problem. You want to demonize American industry, apparently, for the things government has done. That's nonsensical.

You also seem to be deluded into believing that the economy is a fixed pie and that if someone is successful, that success comes at the expense of someone else. A course in basic economics would explain to you why such a belief is absurd.

Big pharma wouldn't use lobbyists on K street to pass on campaign contributions to buy favors now would they?

Wow, industry hiring people to petition the government. Sounds illegal, but it isn't. You also seem to have a real problem with freedom. Just how many favors do you think "big" bad pharma buys from the fedgov when it costs 13 years and $800 million to bring a new drug to market? Yeah government is really looking out for "big" pharma. What a bunch of class warfare crapola. Are you posting from Zuccotti park?

Big pharma didn't bribe and subsidize:

Bribe? You're accusing them of committing illegal activities? If so, I'm sure the government is looking the other way because, after all, they are all the best of buddies.

Again, your problem is with government. They hold almost all of the cards over industry, especially the drug industry. Instead of laying blame for your concerns at the feet of government, where it most certainly belongs, you choose to denigrate American industry. Nice.

Are you a Ron Paul supporter by chance? It's unfortunate you never learned on which side your bread is buttered. Otherwise, you wouldn't come across as some misguided crusader for bigger government.

17 posted on 11/02/2011 12:19:32 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
Post 16

Once again I notice you ignored the possibility that only 'big' companies have the resources to indulge in crony capitalism and deter competition from new and small companies. We live in an age of profit "uber alles", an age in which the only obligation companies have is to earn profit for their stock holders.

To deny that there are those out there who place money and profit above all other things is to deny reality.There is a dark side to human nature that Bastiat in The Law referred to as the ‘common tendency’ of ‘mankind’ ‘when they can’ to ‘live and prosper at the expense of others’."

The only people I know of who blame big government to the exclusion of human nature and confuse capitalism with cronyism, crony capitalism, and fascism are communists, marxists, the OWS protesters.
18 posted on 11/02/2011 12:51:19 PM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: algernonpj
Once again I notice you ignored the possibility that only 'big' companies have the resources to indulge in crony capitalism

That's a bunch of nonsense. Just look at the companies algore lobbied for or Solyndra. You don't have to be a big company to benefit from cronyism. All you have to be is connected. I guess if what you say were true you could show us that the global economy isn't competitive....with all that crony capitalism going on out there. But you can't show it because it doesn't exist anywhere else but in the fever swamp of your imagination.

You can keep posting the same indefensible nonsense all you want but you have no idea what you're talking about and sound no different than all those losers congregating in Zuccotti park.

You are most definitely a big government advocate who doesn't have a grasp of basic economic theory. You also have a twisted understanding of human nature. But that's another topic altogether. How big government types consider themselves conservative is a mystery.

19 posted on 11/02/2011 4:07:51 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801315/posts?page=3#3

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801315/posts?page=15#15

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801315/posts?page=18#18

It’s heartening to see that you live in a world where the innate goodness of human nature is only corrupted by big government and connections.


20 posted on 11/03/2011 4:56:10 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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