[Pugchief]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

You want more production stateside in case of a hurricane. The NC facility *is* stateside which is precisely why it was affected by the hurricane. At that point I’m not sure what you want. No, I want 100% of prescription drugs to be made in the US. We can't rely on other nations for something so critical, especially other nations who are "enemies". Hurricanes are irrelevant to this point. Any one of a hundred reasons could disrupt medicine reaching the pharmacies.

You ask what could possibly happen with the production coming from China. I suppose a typhoon could happen, just as a hurricane happened this time.Why do we need a natural disaster? Maybe China just gets upset with us and decides to stop sending supplies. I'm much more concerned about geopolitical problems than typhoons.

You are concerned about the volume coming from China. It turns out that volume is about 13% of us pharm imports. Not an insignificant volume but less than half of what is currently produced in the US. Yes, I am. Any amount is too much. This link explains my concerns pretty well.

A worldwide pandemic would likely affect production, well, worldwide. Not sure what mitigation you are looking for. 100% production in the US? Yes, if possible.
Who will pay for that? If you're saying that producing here would increase costs, then everyone. Again, too important to rely on China. My opinion. Reasonable people can disagree.
What will happen then when a hurricane takes out a double digit percentage of production?


Possibly, just possibly, leadership has consulted knowledgeable advisors and has taken reasonable steps already. Possibly. Or not. Do you have any source of information claiming steps were taken?

Edit: Not to mention that we still run under a free market system and production is by private companies that make their own decision. True and agree.

Unless you are proposing that the govt. take over pharmaceutical production…
Heck no. Private sector always better than public sector meddling.

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