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Drug Shortages Approach an All-Time High, Leading to Rationing
The New York Times via Yahoo ^ | May 17, 2023 | By Christina Jewett

Posted on 05/17/2023 2:13:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Thousands of patients are facing delays in getting treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases, with drug shortages in the United States approaching record levels.

Hospitals are scouring shelves for supplies of a drug that reverses lead poisoning and for a sterile fluid needed to stop the heart for bypass surgery. Some antibiotics are still scarce following the winter flu season when doctors and patients frantically chased medicines for ailments like strep throat. Even children’s Tylenol was hard to find.

Hundreds of drugs are on the list of medications in short supply in the United States, as officials grapple with an opaque and sometimes interrupted supply chain, quality and financial issues that are leading to manufacturing shutdowns.

The shortages are so acute that they are commanding the attention of the White House and Congress, which are examining the underlying causes of the faltering generic drug market, which accounts for about 90% of domestic prescriptions.

The Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions for shoring up the pharmaceutical supply chain, at a time when the United States remains heavily reliant on medicines and drug ingredients from India and China. And in recent weeks, generic drugmakers, supply-chain experts and patient advocates have appeared before lawmakers to discuss the problems.

The scarcity of generic forms of chemotherapy to treat lung, breast, bladder and ovarian cancers has only heightened concerns.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drug; gates; medication; meds; planned; populationcontrol; shortages; soros
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1 posted on 05/17/2023 2:13:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
…shortages are so acute that they are commanding the attention of the White House and Congress…Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions for shoring up the pharmaceutical supply chain

Butt Forker will get to the bottom of it. He’s our supply chain expert.

2 posted on 05/17/2023 2:16:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This will be the new normal once Democrats gain permanent control of the White House and Congress. Shortages of everything, everywhere.

Unless you’ve one of the elite, of course. They’ll be fine.


3 posted on 05/17/2023 2:18:16 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Funny how Socialism leads to shortages. It’s a shame people don’t learn.


4 posted on 05/17/2023 2:20:00 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its the 1970s - only MUCH worse

The USA is in desperate need of another supply-side, anti-regulation, Reagan-style revolution

But I am very skeptical it can happen. America’s neo-marxists have far more power and control than ever before, power is far more centralized in DC than it ever was in the 1970s. Our FBI and CIA are weaponized as KGB-style organizations


5 posted on 05/17/2023 2:21:12 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When you import most of the meds from soft-war enemy CCP...


6 posted on 05/17/2023 2:23:01 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions for shoring up the pharmaceutical supply chain.<

This horse left the barn a long, long time ago, but yeah, oatmeal boy Biden is just now leaping into action. What a joke.

7 posted on 05/17/2023 2:24:45 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
China.

The next time you go to the doctor or hospital, poke around a little and see how many things are made in China and other places. This is a very serious national security threat. If China decides to slow or halt pharmaceuticals and medical device sales, a very large number of people taking life sustaining medications or procedures are at risk of dying very quickly.

But maybe it’s not a national security threat. Everything is upside down. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a serious threat, but the world’s invasion of the southern border isn’t. America is being dominated by imbeciles.

8 posted on 05/17/2023 2:27:12 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When you move every freeloader in the western hemisphere to the United States so they can vote for the Socialist RATS, bad sh*t is going to happen.


9 posted on 05/17/2023 2:28:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hundreds of drugs are on the list of medications in short supply in the United States.

Gee, it couldn't be that we have 7 million ILLEGALS sucking up everything from A-Z.

10 posted on 05/17/2023 2:28:11 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tell Biden the drugs are for Ukraine. We’ll have shipments here tomorrow.


11 posted on 05/17/2023 2:30:55 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Chgogal

Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions”

Phew, for a moment I was worried.


12 posted on 05/17/2023 2:32:02 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We haven’t seen any of the shortages that we’re going to see yet. Get ready for long lines and empty shelves at Walmart. I see Americans hiring college dummies as car sitters while their car is in line to get gasoline or recharged at a charging station. America’s future is not going to be pretty. We’re talking a 60s science fiction “B” horror movie here. We need another Vincent Price.


13 posted on 05/17/2023 2:33:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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To: Chgogal

Well, our political betters NEVER faces such restrictions. I’m sure that the current POTUS and Senators -and any future ones- will not lack for the latest and greatest.


14 posted on 05/17/2023 2:33:55 PM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (There was enough government in 1789)
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To: Leaning Right

I’m fed up with crony capitalism!


15 posted on 05/17/2023 2:34:40 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Chgogal

They say Canada or Sweden, but what they mean is Cuba or Venezuela!


16 posted on 05/17/2023 2:35:12 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I hope commiecrats lose huge in 2024!


17 posted on 05/17/2023 2:36:28 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Republican in occupied CA

Our rulers never face any hardships. They get the best of everything. None of them died from Covid, go figure. None are affected by inflation or anything that we have to go through.


18 posted on 05/17/2023 2:37:29 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Tilted Irish Kilt; ConservativeMind; null and void

All according to plan. Kill off those who costing the system (Medicare for starters) the most money.


19 posted on 05/17/2023 2:37:45 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: unixfox

Make that 20 Million.

Plus 100,000 more every month, thanks to Biden, Kneepads Kamala, and Mayorkas.


20 posted on 05/17/2023 2:42:49 PM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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