Indeed, oddly enough the government actually 'doing' something like attempting to encourage more domestic production is forward thinking about how to not have s

Indeed, oddly enough the government actually 'doing' something like attempting to encourage more domestic production is forward thinking about how to not have shortages in future should there be disruptions in trade. So this is good I think. But that it didn't work perfectly and caused a shortage is bad of course. My question is why didn't local production increase? Was it because the timeline was too short and there was no way to do it, or did local producers simply choose not do it. If the latter, then I would support national domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities. It would have the added benefit of being able to make out-of-patent drugs which are all bought but the national system anyway.