[DoodleDawg]

Previous administrations allowed China to have this leverage over US by allowing American drug manufactures produce the drugs there. Lower labor costs.

How could they have legally prevented it? Corporations in the U.S. are going to cut costs in every way they can regardless of the risk to the U.S. Outsourcing jobs, manufacturing overseas, they all do it and none of it is illegal. And there's nothing the government can do about it.

[mewzilla]

Do about it?

Fedzilla ENABLED it.

The good news is that what Fedzilla giveth, Fedzilla can taketh away.

[NobleFree]

Outsourcing jobs, manufacturing overseas, they all do it and none of it is illegal. And there's nothing the government can do about it.

You contradict yourself - what the government can do about it is make those things illegal (or legally restricted).

[PapaBear3625]

How could they have legally prevented it? Corporations in the U.S. are going to cut costs in every way they can regardless of the risk to the U.S. Outsourcing jobs, manufacturing overseas, they all do it and none of it is illegal. And there's nothing the government can do about it.

There's PLENTY that the feds could have done about it, if they wanted to, particularly in the area of pharmaceuticals: tariffs, stringent FDA monitoring of imported meds (with the cost billed to the importer) -- there would have been LOTS of ways to erase any cost saving from importing meds.

[Pilsner]

How could they have legally prevented it? Corporations in the U.S. are going to cut costs in every way they can regardless of the risk to the U.S. Outsourcing jobs, manufacturing overseas, they all do it and none of it is illegal. And there's nothing the government can do about it

Pharmaceuticals are heavily regulated. If the Feds do not sign off on a plant's authorization to manufacture prescription drugs for the US market, then it does not happen.

[super7man]

And there's nothing the government can do about it.

The government is exactly what caused business to go overseas. I agree with you that companies will go and do what will make them the most money. Government through taxation, regulation, bad trade agreements and Union support, made it more profitable to go overseas.

The government could just as well make it favorable to come back by reducing the burden of all those things mentioned.

[central_va]

How could they have legally prevented it?

How? A really HIGH TARIFF. That's how.

[gogeo]

And there's nothing the government can do about it.

Incorrect.

They can do what's been reported, an EO directing all US Government purchasing of medicines to be of domestic origin. It's a power that clearly exists and creates a supply chain that could be used by anyone.

The Feds are dominant players there.