But it also is the public who keeps demanding that every drug they happen to need be dirt cheap.
The drugs which are saving lives now took “billions” of dollars and “millions” of man-hours to produce. And that isn’t cheap.
If we want cutting edge drugs which solve real problems and diseases, we will need to pay for it.
Or buy cheap Chinese drugs from rip off artists.
“But it also is the public who keeps demanding that every drug they happen to need be dirt cheap.”
Heck, it’s not the public. Pick up a bottle of aspirin and try to figure out what country produced it. You can’t. Congress passed a law allowing drug companies to hide it...because otherwise people would start to worry about our dependence on China.
Politicians and especially the IDIOTS at CDC are supposed to be better informed - and they sold us out, virtually all of them.
What I’d LIKE to hear in this area is what our government is doing to bring back production (drugs and other critical items), and I don’t want it to be tax credits or some crap like that, it needs to be real measures. And that starts with regulatory relief - at ALL levels - if some local government tries to block a new drug plant, then the feds need to step on them like a gnat. If some agency wants an ‘Environmental Impact Report’ that takes 9 months to complete, do it later. If a drug company says they can get a plant operating 6 months earlier, but their air pollution will be 25% above what’s required, worry about the 25% later. And get the damn labor unions out of the way - we don’t have time to indulge their hatred of this country.
Will that happen - doesn’t seem that way. Seems like all we see is added ‘liquidity’, as if ‘liquidity’ provides antibiotics. But there’s still nearly 8 months to the election, and taking strong measures like these will throw the Dems into a tailspin - but can our leaders figure this out, in time?
You nailed it, Youwant cheap drugs or drugs made in the US? you can’t have both. I guess you can buy meth made locally pretty cheap.
Not much, I would say.