More people flock to hospitals for minor things, because "it's free" with all the subsidies, and since doctors and drug manufacturers can't get decent profits they will limit the supplies or go out of business totally, as there will be no incentive to provide medical care. It is going towards socialized medicine, where the government will be paying doctors fixed salaries, providing the medications, buying them at fixed prices and companies will go out of business because they can't sustain themselves, so now everything is "free" just not available.
Unless there is an outbreak somewhere that we’re not hearing about why the need for all the hydration?
This is just one item being reported. I know there are shortages of Tamiflu (for influenza) in some areas. I agree, it will only get worse.
Only the federal government could cause a shortage of WATER and SALT.
It’ll reach a point where you turn to your local marijuana connection in the neighborhood...and task them to provide legit medical services or legit drugs. Your dealers...Juicy and McPot look at you in amazement. Really? You need services like this? Well...sure.
So Juicy will talk to Juan and Yung-Jim, and a week later....there’s a new trailer over in the seedy part of town in “Avon Trailer Park”. Quietly, some Chinese doctor has been sneaked into the US, and for $30....he examines you. He write a one-line prescription, which you hand to McPot, and gets a delivery from Panama once a week, and you pay him $50 for legit drugs that normally cost you $150.
Eventually, some dimwit from Princeton University writes up a 700-page book on the economics of new America....where he quotes Juicy and McPot on various economic theories that they’ve put into place, and why they are so successful. The dimwit wins a Nobel Prize, and some President wants to implement the legalized Juicy/McPot system to save America from the evil Obama Healthcare Law.
How can there be a spike in the need for saline...?
No national emergency, no national disaster....
Must be those greedy manufacturers / S
I work in healthcare, and the shortage of barium we went through was a canary in a coal mine in my view. Due to the overwhelming cost of legislative and regulatory overview, every barium plant in this country was closed because they became unprofitable.
So the only one left open in North America was in Mexico, and guess what happened there? They had to close that one due to unsanitary conditions. I don’t recall if it was permanent, but...it is just one thing.
With the climate making it unlikely someone will be able to make a profit, we see what happens. And we will see more of this.
Yesterday, Barium.
Today, Saline.
Tomorrow, Chest XRays and Doctor’s Appointments.
0bamacare
and so it begins.
remember folks, when visiting family members, bring a vase of flowers ... with lots of water
I have been reading about pharmaceutical shortages for years now. Although most of the articles I have read state that the FDA is working with manufacturers to address the shortage, it seems that the problem is with getting the raw materials to feed into the manufacturing chain.
It seems the problem is just getting worse.
We can’t just blame Obamacare for this. A lot more comprehensive Obamaconomics is involved here.
Oh, come on. Are we supposed to believe that there’s a shortage of salt water? Gimme a break ...
Obamacare: Tom Coburn loses cancer doctor
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/obamacare-tom-coburn-cancer-doctor-102724.html
The FDA’s “Current Drug Shortage Index”. A very useful link to bookmark.
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/DrugShortages/ucm050792.htm
Importantly, this is a very dynamic list and may not list regional or spot shortages.
Under Obamacare there will be shortages of clean sheets for hospital beds as well as bed pans. Read in the UK press the horror stories about pregnant women giving birth unattended in hospital hallways, helpless grannies dying of dehydration in NHS hospitals and even patients found by family members in filthy beds where the sheets hadn’t been changed in days. Coming soon to a hospital near you thanks to Obama.