• macniel
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    257 months ago

    Couldn’t USA invest in the capability of producing those drugs locally?

    • @ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
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      137 months ago

      In theory yes, and in practice the US is planning on producing certain critical drugs locally, but most drugs will probably continue to be produced in India and China due to cost.

      • @set_secret@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        it makes perfect sense that one of the wealthiest countries, depends on poorer ones to produce their pharmaceuticals because of ‘costs’. Seems legit.

        • Maeve
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          137 months ago

          And still charge insanely high prices. A side note: a local used to work at a now-closed child medicine manufacturing facility. His behavior became so volatile, everyone blamed it on that, but also he was in late adolescence under extreme conditions of despair.

        • @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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          The country isn’t wealthy, but some individuals are and fantastically so. They won’t manufacture this stuff at home because it’d mean pharma execs couldn’t afford as many yachts

      • Th4tGuyII
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        7 months ago

        Well somebody ought to tell them that they should maybe put that +1000% margin they make on their drugs into that rather than lining their pockets.

        God forbid the executives make a little less money - won’t somebody think of those poor multi-millionaires! /s

    • nkat2112
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      37 months ago

      This is a very valid question. They should be produced locally.