Most of the shortage situations have nothing to do with Obama. A lot of it is actually private enterprise problems.
Funny how those 'private enterprise problems' seem to happen more often when the government takes over the process of the delivery of care.
Yeah the article alludes to it. The “widely used, cheap and safe” drug is not nearly as profitable as the prescription psoriasis or ED pill that you can hawk direct to consumers on TV for a hundred bucks a pill.
So the drug companies stop making them.
So if a US manufacturer cannot keep up with demand, import them from India, which, I have heard, has a large and growing pharmaceutical industry.
I would bet there could be some pretty good generic prices, too.
Not just private enterprise, many of our drugs are coming from overseas, and don’t meet FDA standards, and are being held up in importation too.
We have a hospital here in Memphis that does not even provide pillows. Staffing shortages, horrid food. Techs poorly trained, doctors not on the floor when they are doing stress test with a full waiting room. No one calls the patients back with test results or even bothers to send them out at the very least. But they sure want paid.