More evidence emerges that our reliance on generic medicine from China and India puts us all at risk
the pharmaceutical companies themselves provided essential supplies for the thousands of workers they depend on
. The companies have invested tens of millions of dollars in cogeneration plants to provide power, and in communications systems. These were the two major areas that failed during Maria. While these particular systems are now better, the lack of adequate infrastructure on the island still poses a major vulnerability.. These APIs then supply much of the Indian market, where final manufacturing of the drugs occurs. We import 80% of our medicines from India.
“If China and India decided to simply stop selling raw material to the US – we would not be able to make about 80% of the drugs that we need,”Rosemary Gibson’sI surprisingly found Katherine Eban’s scarier, perhaps as it is newer to me. It exposes fraud and lies across the generics industry more broadly, with the same supply chain security concerns. I admire the investigative journalism.One of my pet peeves with medicines has been the insistence by the FDA and insurers that generics are interchangeable and therefore not allowing patients any choice in the matter. Patients know that some are not interchangeable.
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