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Drug manufacturing is a solved problem. There are no drug shortages, only pharma FUD.
by motohagiography 3y ago
Drug manufacturing is a solved problem. There are no drug shortages, only pharma FUD.
- alistairSH 3y agoCare to elaborate? Supply problems don’t strike me as FUD, but market failures. They might be correctable, with the correct incentives, but they’re still a problem.
- oatmeal1 3y agoUS healthcare is about as far away from a free market as there is.
- alistairSH 3y agoI never claimed otherwise.
- renewiltord 3y agoCut the FDA requirement and drug patents and I will get you higher quality drugs manufactured with full supply chain provenance for cheaper. The biggest secret is that getting on the good side of the FDA is about knowing people and all that usual shit. Americans choose shortages because they think bureaucracy gets them quality. Instead what it gets them is a lack of baby formula and military planes importing it from Europe (presumably only the few cans that would cause children to not instantaneously drop dead like they do in Europe where they don't put FDA labels on them).
- herbst 3y agoMy small pharmacy here in Switzerland is cooking their own dextroamphetamine and it's cheaper than street prices. There is no shortage, just weird regulation issues