Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Stephan: This is the latest on the growing drug shortage trend, just another example of the reality of the illness profit system. I don't expect anything to change, however, the Obama Administration in this regard is not much different than the last Bush Administration. Your health, for these corporate interests is, at best, a secondary consideration. I take a generic drug for blood pressure and the last time I went in to fill my prescription I had to wait two days, the pharmacy had run out, and couldn't get any more. They finally tracked some down but in a lower dosage, so now I have to take two pills instead of one. Best health care in the world.... I don't know how they say it with a straight face.
WASHINGTON — Federal officials and lawmakers, along with the drug industry and doctors’ groups, are rushing to find remedies for critical shortages of drugs to treat a number of life-threatening illnesses, including bacterial infection and several forms of cancer.
The proposed solutions, which include a national stockpile of cancer medicines and a nonprofit company that will import drugs and eventually make them, are still in the early or planning stages. But the sense of alarm is widespread.
‘These shortages are just killing us,
