Comments on: There’s a chemo shortage

By: buddhaha

buddhaha — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:19:54 +0000

Third world countries have third world employees with third world priorities ( hint: me, me, me). As G.S. says above, you’ve gotta watch ’em like a hawk.
In my experience, the companies using far eastern assembly who have decent quality are those with western QC employees on site.
How to fix this? My first thought is to move the manufacture back onshore. This, however, begs the question of why was the manufacture moved in the first place. There are many factors but the main one for pharma (and any chemical) is safety regs, which are both expensive and essentially non-existent over “there”. Can you say “Bhopal”, boys and girls? Solve that issue and those operations will return.

By: JD Keene

JD Keene — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:08:04 +0000

No one (in the larger view) ever discusses the effects of Obama Care on all of the medical topics. Odd… or not…

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:42:09 +0000

No shortage of “Biden”‘s outright lies and deceptions, though….
Try wrapping yer heads around this one:
“Biden DHS asks Supreme Court to let border agents cut Texas’s razor-wire fence”—
https://justthenews.com/government/security/biden-dhs-asks-supreme-court-let-border-agents-cut-texass-razor-wire-fence
Key lie:
“The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to permit it to cut a razor-wire fence the state of Texas placed along the Mexican border.
“The government has argued that the fence interferes with federal border enforcement activities and that the fence presents a safety risk to illegal immigrants crossing the border through the Rio Grande river….” [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]

Yep, the border is secure alright! (And if it’s not, well that’s just the GOP’s fault….)

By: Marlene

Marlene — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:24:28 +0000

Very similar to the ongoing — though no longer in the news — baby formula shortage.
Government regulates & limits the # of co’s allowed to manufacture & sell a product.
Government is awful at determining what is needed, & how to actually enforce quality control such that we don’t suffer shortages.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:56:09 +0000

Wait. Price controls are causing shortages? How can that be? Oh, right. That is the known outcome of price controls.

Art Deco, my answer would be that government regulation is at minimum part of why there are only three distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, probably a big part. There may be other reasons but I bet that is in there.

I will also guess that more regulations will be the NYT’s preferred solution.

By: Sgt. Joe Friday

Sgt. Joe Friday — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:29:19 +0000

So what we have here is what I believe is known in common parlance as a…cartel.

By: Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:26:32 +0000

But, but Big Pharma is eeeeevil! No, wait, DrugCo has suggested they need someone with my distinguished record as a consultant soon, so Pharma good! Coalition to buy at Low prices good! Coalition to sell, bad!

In a high trust society you don’t have to stand aside the production line to be sure the plant manager isn’t dumping in sand to lower costs. India and China are not high trust societies.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:22:39 +0000

Why should there only be three companies which distribute pharmaceuticals? Something fishy here. It's the Sulzberger Birdcage Liner, so assume they're working some angle.