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.
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Butt Forker will get to the bottom of it. He’s our supply chain expert.
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.
Funny how Socialism leads to shortages. It’s a shame people don’t learn.
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
When you import most of the meds from soft-war enemy CCP...
This horse left the barn a long, long time ago, but yeah, oatmeal boy Biden is just now leaping into action. What a joke.
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.
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.
Gee, it couldn't be that we have 7 million ILLEGALS sucking up everything from A-Z.
Tell Biden the drugs are for Ukraine. We’ll have shipments here tomorrow.
Biden administration has assembled a team to find long-term solutions”
Phew, for a moment I was worried.
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.
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.
I’m fed up with crony capitalism!
They say Canada or Sweden, but what they mean is Cuba or Venezuela!
I hope commiecrats lose huge in 2024!
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.
All according to plan. Kill off those who costing the system (Medicare for starters) the most money.
Make that 20 Million.
Plus 100,000 more every month, thanks to Biden, Kneepads Kamala, and Mayorkas.
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