No worries, Joe is on the job! During the 30 hours a week he works
Drug Shortages Approach an All-Time High, Leading to Rationing
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.
Anyone who voted for Biden/against Trump, well, this is what you were voting for
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.
Oh, thank goodness, they’ve put together a team! And people are testifying! That should solve the problem. Which everyone else saw coming back in 2021. In fairness, you can’t put the main blame on Biden, it goes to China and people like Fauci for screwing around with coronaviruses. But, secondary blame goes to the Biden admin, which never took their eyes off the ball, because they never had their eyes on the ball to start with
The White House team working on the broader issue of long-standing drug supply breakdowns includes national security, economic and health officials, according to James McKinney, a spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration. Bloomberg reported earlier on the White House involvement.
Officials have been debating possible measures like tax incentives for generic drugmakers and greater transparency around generic drug quality. The current incentives favor drugmakers with the lowest prices, which includes those that might cut corners — leading to disruptive plant shutdowns if the FDA demands a fix. (Some shortages, like those of weight-loss drugs, are the result of sky-high demand, while others have been attributed to overprescribing, including for antibiotics, or a lack of investment in potential alternatives.)
So, just a lot of yapping and political posturing. You can really look back to the lines being shut down in 2020, and even into 2021, due to COVID, and they just aren’t able to catch up, much less over-produce.
“During the 30 hours a week he works.”
Umm, don’t you mean “During the 30 hours a week he is semi-lucid”?
President Biden puts in twice as many hours as did Don “Unined Shates” Trump.
The generic drug market (manufacturing, packaging, storage, distribution) is a fairly low margin business. Most of the raw materials and final products are manufactured in India and China. It’s been that way for a long time, not just the past three years. The US has hundreds of shortages each year. It’s been that way for a long time, not just the past three years.
Generics make up 90% of prescriptions and cost much, much less than branded drugs. But as an analyst in the article stated, “Low prices come with high costs”. Companies seek to save with cuts in quality, just-in-time manufacturing, decreased inventories…
The Covid-19 pandemic, which President Biden recently ended, has had a lingering impact on supply chain issues.
Mr Teach, a putative free-market capitalist, doesn’t seem to understand free-market capitalism. Generic manufacturers and marketers are free to follow the money. Does Mr Teach want the government to dictate what they make and sell?? Really??
The raw materials for some radiolabeled drugs are in short supply because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Rimjob: The Covid-19 pandemic, which President Biden recently ended…
Always good to start the day with a lie, hey chubby?
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We thought we smelled something! DickBreath is back after a brief hiatus. Whoever said you were unteachable wasn’t wrong!
Is the emaciated methmouth claiming that President Biden wasn’t prez when Trump’s Covid-19 pandemic finally gave up the ghost?
Why do you feel you have to lie? You know that silly hateful statement is not true but you just couldn’t resist making it. There is really someting wrong with a person who feels he must lie just to insult another. LOL.
Another example is : “The Covid-19 pandemic, which President Biden recently ended”. That ignorant asshole didn’t “end” anything. He happened to be in office when all the damage done by the Chineses and Fauci finally ran its course. He personally did nothing.
Are you now claiming biden’s war is causing that shortage? Why? Has biden embargoed these items? Has he refused to trade with Russian thereby causing a shortage? These are somehow the only items that can’t be made in China?
Everything biden touches he ruins.
L’Roy,
We combat your lies with truth. President Biden has 30 hr of meetings scheduled per week and the silly Mr Teach thinks that means he only works 30 hr per week. Tell your Mr Teach to stop telling silly lies.
That ignorant asshole Trump was in office when Covid-19 swept the globe. President Biden, who destroyed the ignorant asshole Trump in the election, was in office when the pandemic ended.
Yes and yes. Many of the commerce items, e.g., radionuclides, are only available from Russian or Ukrainian reactors.
We understand that the far-right hates President Biden, just as they hated Presidents Clinton and Obama, and just as they worship Trump. Largely, it’s about policy. Largely, it’s about the culture wars and personalities. The nuGOP/nuCon/nuRight have lost their way, substituting BS for substance. Their long game is still to deconstruct democracy so that it serves their purposes. But your reactionary overreach on abortion policy was stunning and purple state nuGOPhers (e.g., in NC) are trying to walk it back before 2024. Many states will make the limits of Roe v Wade state law!!
We’ll ask again of any and all abortion extremists: If human existence, ie, personhood, begins at the moment of conception how can you negotiate away millions of humans lives by abiding by a 12- or 20-week gestation permit to abort (murder)? Certain red states can get away with an outright ban but most politicos see that losing 50% of their loyal female voters is too high a price to pay for ‘purity’.
A “fertilized child” is what you called them the other day.
#RimjobIsNotAllThere
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You are incorrect, sir!! DickBreath can’t get anything right, can you?
Do YOU believe a fertilized egg is a human person? If so, what do you think about murdering 12 week old ‘babies’ in the womb?
It’s almost as if nuForcedBirthers care more about controlling women than saving ‘babies’.
#DickBreathIsNotAllThere
My bad, Rimjob, you referred to them as “fertilized babies” the other day.
Sorry if that upset you.
#EasyBigFella
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Yep, your bad, DickBreath.
But that’s ok, you’re human-ish.
If I was upset I’d wait for you to get a job, then track down your employer and contact them!
So scary, Rimjob!
Easy big fella!
Are Beardsley and Riley aware that you issue such threats over the internet?
#Galera
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Lil
can’t leave well enough alone can he?
I wouldn’t waste even 30 seconds of my time on you.
So no need to be scared, little bunny. We’ve found a 20 g with #6 shot the best for rabbit hunting in brush. Best is to buy or raise live rabbits for meat. In that case you kill them by cervical dislocation or a sharp blow to the back of the skull before butchering.
So please, contact the police, the BOD, the SEC, Congress, the FBI, the FDA, my friends and family; whomever you think necessary and turn me in!! LOL
Well it appears you spent at least 30 seconds to respond to a simple question and you still didn’t answer but instead launched into a rant about killing rabbits, notifying the police, the BOD, the SEC, Congress, the FBI, the FDA, my friends and family; whomever you think necessary and turn me in!!
Why would you think I would want to do any of those things, chubby?
#ParanoidSchizoRimjob
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Desperation! by DickBreath. “Smell like your father did when he raped your mother”.
Trump Trump Jr 2024!!
We can only hope that Mr Trump outduels Mr DeSantis for the GOP nomination. It’s unlikely the far-right can re-engineer the electoral system in time to assure a Trump victory.
Says a guy who supported a fraudulent election, fake voting, illegal ballots and followed it up with lawfare and the oppression of protestors.
Dowd, you and your party are bullies and liars.
CarolAnn,
You CAN’T still be clinging to the notion of a fraudulent election!
It’s your Christian White Nationalist Party (aka GOP) who are trying to fix elections and suppress democracy. Just because people disagree with you reactionary authoritarians doesn’t mean the peoples’ votes are fraudulent.
CarolAnn, you and your party are violent bullies and liars. And fizzucking nutz.
As an aside, how do YOU feel that nuGOPhers are caving on your absolutist bans on abortion? Suddenly it’s OK to murder 6- or 12- or 20-week old babies in the womb? Is that OK as long as it keeps Repubicuns in power?
Do you ever read the stupid shit you type?
Of course it was fraudulent or you liars would have no problem with an audit. We just saw testimony by FBI agents stating they witnessed cheating. But to you it doesn’t matter as long as your insurrection is a success.
Has the GOP always been a “Christian White Nationalist Party” or only since it defeated your slave owing confederate insurrection? We don’t expect everyone to agree with us just to be fair and free elections. You communists only believe in winning at any cost.
Personally I never thought abortion was absolute but we are willing to talk. You baby murderers aren’t happy unless you’re killing kids at two years old. All I’ve ever asked (and I ask you, again) at what point does life begin? Would you agree at that point abortion is baby murder? If life begins at 6 or 12 weeks then it wouldn’t be murder now would it? Or can’t you rationalize that?
The only bullies around this republic are you communists and your fascist and Muslim allies. Remember it was we White Christians that created this country, this republic, this beacon of liberty you moron. If we wanted a white Christian only country we would have made it that way to begin with.
L’Roy typed:
Do YOU ever read the stupid shit that YOU type?
If you find someone killing two year olds and the police won’t stop it, call me and I’ll go with you, well armed, and try to stop it!
Murder is still murder. I’m pleased to discover that you, like me, will be labeled a baby murderer for permitting abortions through the first trimester!
How can you compromise on baby murder? A sperm is alive. An egg is alive. A fertilized egg winding its way down the fallopian tube is alive. At what point is this fertilized egg a person or even a citizen? Most fertilized eggs do not survive. Most ‘babies’ are spontaneously aborted by nature. 15-20% of implanted ‘babies’ are lost to miscarriage.
At 13 weeks gestation how will you know whether the woman lost the baby by abortion or miscarriage? Legally, it’s the difference between an unfortunate accident and 1st Degree murder. It will require a thorough police investigation, right?
Roe v Wade permitted abortions, in general, until fetal viablility, ~ 20-24 weeks, although over 90% of abortions took place by week 13, anyway. Fetal “heartbeat” laws ban abortions after 6 weeks (there is no heart yet, BTW), usually before a woman knows she is pregnant.
The anti-abortion zealots want to control the sex lives of women. Forced birth is one way to do that. It’s not about zygotes, embryos or fetuses at all. It’s about control. Once born, conservatives have no use for real babies, being just another potential burden on taxpayers.
Carol,
Of course the election was stolen. Trump was falsely impeached by Nancy P despite having done nothing. Then Trump has been relentlessly attacked by the socialist as he is our only salvation. I have found it best to not respond to people on this blog who are abusive, bullies and totally lacking in knowledge. If we all did that these repugnant people might get the message.
Nah. You all (and Mr Teach) and the nuRight movement in toto would still lie, exaggerate, misinform and disinform.
The only effective rebuttal is the truth. Over and over again.
No, the 2020 election was not stolen. There is absolutely NO persuasive evidence otherwise. None.
President Trump was impeached twice, once for coercing Ukraine into investigating Trump’s electoral opponent, and once for not only permitting the Jan 6 insurrection but for instigating it.
President Trump could have stopped the attack but instead chose to watch it.
Trump is not America’s salvation, but is America’s greatest threat.
I’ll ignore your bullshit when you stop spreading it.
Commenters such as CarolAnn and david are with little hope. Perhaps they can recover if Trump admits the truth – he’s a cult leader and he actually lost the election.
If you truly believe that Trump won in 2020 and that violence is the only answer, you’re a threat to America.
I know david7134 but at this point there are already several commenters who won’t interact with Elwood so somebody’s got to do it. Besides, his ignorant and evil comments amuse me. Can you imagine going through life with that much hate inside?
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CarolAnn,
I wish NO one on this site, including you, would ever address me. You guys do little besides lie and call people names. I understand you interpret the truth as evil, hateful, communist, nazi and socialist. Zealots are valuable in a society, but we must realize that zealots have little or no room for compromise which makes for horrible governance.
You don’t have to imagine what hate feels like do you?
If you had it in your power would you ban all abortions? Or are there compromises you can accept?
If you had it in your power would you legalize all Arms? Or are there compromises you might accept?
If you had it in your power would you eliminate Social Security, Medicare and/or Medicaid? Or are there compromises you might accept?
If you had it in your power would you eliminate the FBI?
If you had it in your power would you arrest and try the Biden family members?
So Rimjob, if you had the power would you track down a
commentor’s employer and contact them?
Just want to be clear about that.
Is that what hate feels like, chubby?
#NarcissisticMuch
#SaviorComplex
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So DickBreath, did you track down a commenter’s employer and contact them, or just post their work address?
Just want to be clear about that.
Is that what hate feels like, HIV?
Another non-answer answer.
Deflect much, chubby?
One would throughly believe so.
Killed any rabbits lately?
#BunnyKillerRimjob
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So DickBreath, did you track down a commenter’s employer and contact them, or just post their work address?
Which commentor is that?
What address?
Let’s be clear, chubby.
#RimjobBunnyKiller
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Non-responsive, CumBoy!