If you walk the medicine aisles you will notice lots of holes where name brand meds are supposed to be, plus an overabundance of store brands spaced out to fill in places where those name brands are supposed to live. Even things like Tylenol and Motrin, which were recalled several years ago, remain in short supply. I too would like to know why there have been so many of these recalls and shortages without having to don a tinfoil hat.
I was needing to restock the medicine cabinet the other day and couldn't find several OTC items that we normally have on hand. One item was some bottles of magnesium citrate for constipation. I had to get them from behind the pharmacy counter!?! I bought all they had which was just 4 bottles. I expect to see more of this under ObamaCare. I also suspect that we'll have less and less OTC as Big Brother will be grabbing at more and more control. We're already having to get cold and cough meds from behind the counter and "they" are keeping a list of everyone who buys them.
I've heard that some prescription meds are also getting substituted with inferior generics that are messing with people's systems. Such as Warfarin has long been the generic for Coumadin but now patients can't get that so have been getting their refills with some other generic and it's not working. There's also been problems with some birth control prescriptions getting delivered on time so that ladies are having to change to different brands and some doctors aren't informing them to use extra protection for a couple because of the lag time, sigh. So, you might want to have that tinfoil hat handy because if we can't keep a minimum home medicine cabinet, then something is going on.