Yes, and the evidence is that the US government has been seizing people's stockpiles of PPE and paying what they think the market price is: https://www.nytimes.

Yes, and the evidence is that the US government has been seizing people's stockpiles of PPE and paying what they think the market price is: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/brooklyn-coronavirus-price-gouging.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/brooklyn-coronav... The only reason suppliers can get away with profiteering and price gouging is that ultimately, most of them aren't based in the USA and so there's no way for the US federal government to get their goods without either paying the price they demand or starting a war.