[trailhkr1]

HHH trying to kill off the less strong.

In a nutshell drug companies are making less of the drugs they make little money on and concentrating on making the drugs with the higher profit margin. Many of the drugs that have had shortages they make very little money on.

There is no conspiracy out there.

[surroundedbyblue]

I must respectfully disagree with you.

Yes the drugs we are short on in the OR are the cheaper, generic, off-patent stuff, people are also reporting shortages on the swanky, high-end cancer drugs.

Truly, it seems we are short on almost everything. After 14 years of nursing, I’ve never seen anything like this. There’s been a steady shortage of meds for at least the last two years, and it seems to be getting worse, affecting more drugs. It’s quite unnerving and makes me want a new job. I can’t sit by & watch people in excruciating pain after surgery, or have total recall of their procedure because we are short on midaz. That s**t ain’t right.

[Steamburg]

There may be no conspiracy on the side of the Drug Companies, but there’s one hell of a conspiracy by those who wish to nationalize them.
Can we say Hugo Obama?

[UCANSEE2]

There is no conspiracy out there.

Other than greed and a socialist trending government.

[GOPJ]

And just why - when there's a shortage - can't they raise their prices? You know, like ‘capitalism’? The invisible hand and all? When the price gets high enough, new companies come in to make a profit. Something is stopping that process from working the way it should.

At some level, the government has taken control of what can be charged - what prices - for certain drugs... and the free market process had been short circuited.