The U.S. is offering a limp-response to a massive shortage various categories of drugs, but especially generic medications due to their poor profit margins. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks. https://shoptyt.com/collections/justice-is-coming
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"When Akorn Pharmaceuticals shut its doors in February, hospitals across the country felt it.
The Lake Forest, Illinois-based drugmaker was responsible for producing 75 generic drugs, all of which were pulled from the market when the company closed down. In some cases, the company was the sole supplier of particular products. "
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How can I open a generic company to bring these medications to the US?
@carolosburn1383 Says:
We haven’t been here before this is unacceptable for all Americans. We are now a third world country, all other countries are laughing at us! Lawmakers are doing nothing!
@carolosburn1383 Says:
How come this is not all over the news? FDA is not coming up with any solutions. I will die so what are the legal consequences?
@jrbaretta Says:
SHAME ON AMERICA: In the 21st century, there is now a prescription drug shortage in the US which is sending us back to the pre-opiod days where millions of people with acute and chronic disabilities and injuries and cancers were forced to suffer untold agony since the only pain killers available then were Morphine and Codeine before the advent of Vicodin and Percocet with their miracle-working ability to kill severe pain. Now we have suddenly been plunged back into the dark ages of pain and torture for two reasons:
A few decades ago, the US Congress voted to allow pharmacies in the US to buy their prescription drugs from foreign pharmaceutical corporations in China and India. This allowed American pharmaceutical corporations to close down their production facilities in the US where prescription medications were manufactured, such as Vicodin and Percocet.
Some of these companies were allowed to open production facilities inside China and India so they still hand a guiding hand in the production of these drugs and the exportation of these drugs from China and India to the US and other nations. This meant that no longer were drugs made in the USA.
Now, as the decades rolled by, America became more and more dependent on these pharmaceutical corporation operating their production facilities in China and India, which meant too that American politicians had to be sure to always make the Chinese happy, for one thing.
Because if the Chinese became unhappy with the way American politicians were voting for any given bill affecting trade with China, it would be easy for the Chinese communists to create a prescription medication embargo, meaning all exports of pain killers to the US, for example, would either be curtailed or stopped altogether, until and unless the Chinese got their way.
So while we are still receiving some prescription meds from India, it was China who sold most of those meds in the US to the average American consumer who needed their prescriptions filled. These same drugs could have been produced in Mexico and Canada had American pharmaceutical companies agreed to move their manufacturing facilities to those countries but manpower in Asia, especially China, was far more cheaper.
And now we have this current crisis in which the US Senate and Congress, nor the Biden Administration, has done little to nothing about in order to solve the crisis, perhaps more out of apathy than anything else. After all, when senators and congress members do not and grapple with daily pain, what do they care?
OPEC did a similar embargo in 1974 and 1979 by slowing down shipments of crude oil from the Middle East to the US, which created a severe shortage of gas in the US, creating very long lines at the gas pump, and much higher prices for every gallon of gas sold.
Now Americans, especially those with severe disabilities and injuries, pain from illnesses such as cancer and pain caused by having surgery, will suffer the effects of this drug embargo. The answer to this should have been solved in 2023 by the US Government mandating that all US pharmaceutical corporations manufacture prescription drugs at facilities inside the US.
This is the only and best way to answer China's act of aggression in this Cold War of the 21st century. In the meantime, as US politicians scratch their clueless heads, disabled Americans, including wounded veterans, will suffer torture from chronic and severe pain that over the counter pain meds have no affect on.
If the current drug embargo continues, we will witness a black market in the US for pain killer drugs that has never been seen before as thousands of illegal drug dealers in the streets begin selling Fentanyl-laced pain pills to unsuspecting Americans who are desperate for pain relief.
@unitedstatesirie7431 Says:
The American citizens are being experimented on. There many declassified CIA documents that verify this.
@survivor9898 Says:
Too inexpensive for the consumer, but not our insurance companies. Apperantly we can't get name brand meds in the US. How about we start producing our own medicines right here in the good old USofA again like in the old days.
@Charles-lane277 Says:
Why is this only happening after biden gets into office?
@glennrobin3141 Says:
Why hasn't the government stepped in to help out
@Drrck11 Says:
I have to wonder if this drug shortage is by design. Dare I say, a form of...population control? 🤔
@photorealm Says:
The cartels don't have a shortage, why does the most powerful country on earth have no drugs to save lives. And for so so long with no good explanation or end in sight.
Big Pharma doesn't want to sell drugs out of patent because they can't gouge the people for ridiculous prices so they run interference on these drugs to force you to switch to in patent drugs at outrageous prices. They own ALL of the politicians so we loose big time. These same politicians will get any drug they or a family member needs to stay alive, they are on the short list. I have cancer and chronic pain, and its a full time job trying to find a pharmacy that has my meds in stock and if they do they won't for long so If I can't get the doctor to call immediately (good luck with that). So many out there are far worse off and can't get out of bed and they will just have to let nature take its course. Its gone on far to long to not be suspicious and its getting worse not better.
@kwren-od3si Says:
When are Americans going to realize we are being murdered?
@3lfruler Says:
57% of medications in the US are imported.
@jamesneveaux4892 Says:
Maybe the Mexican Cartels can make up the shortfalls. You don't think the Biden admin can fix this?
@tudiecampagna5793 Says:
Why cant they force them? They force farmers to grow what they say?
@houseofhale Says:
Wasting tax payer money by talking about peeing in public?! WTF? There are more pressing issues.
@wallychambe1587 Says:
Cancer patients can't get their pain meds either! And are suffering!😲😲😲
@diannesequeira8840 Says:
I have been trying to get pain medication. I have RA and osteoporosis. I can't function without my pain meds. I'm 69 years plus my husband is right now trying to get his pain medication he's just went through 3 years fighting colon cancer he's suffering right now
@josephtallerson893 Says:
6:39 mark, china will be allowed to supply some of these meds....
@josephtallerson893 Says:
They are lying. The admin ordered the halt of production. Then China to the rescue and will be allowed to import their drugs, that were not allowed b4...Billions to china's gov.
@4Kcorner Says:
Fentanol isn't though. Interesting
@haroldewald9902 Says:
What they’re not telling you is they have been moving away from sourcing from China for the ingredients because they’re preparing for World War 3
@springload7238 Says:
YTY president
@noswayjose Says:
Joe Biden
@carogame Says:
I can tell you why there is a shortage of pain meds and adderall. They are severely over prescribed. Everybody takes adderall and pain meds. Doctors at fault just as much as patients. I can't tell you how many people above 70 I see taking adderall. Also shortages on drugs such as mounjaro and wegovy are due to the companies marketing them for weight loss. So many rich people are buying this and taking it from people who are using for diabetes. Pretty simple fixes here.
@psychfred Says:
Don’t make healthcare for profit.
@chriss-nf1bd Says:
I suffer from chronic pain. It took years to find meds that helped control pain. It comes down to bean counters. They do not stock enough to meat demand. Ad the drug war the US waged on big pharma. It is time to nationalize big pharma. This hell and manslaughter drug companies commit, needs prosecuted.
@yishnir Says:
To be fair, the drug safety approval process in the U.S. is completely captured by corporations. They literally get to perform their own 'safety trials' and then the FDA rubber-stamps them.
@rahulsharmaok Says:
It's not the company's fault. Its the local distributor of the generic's fault.
USA is an unbranded generic market, largest of this kind in the world.
In unbranded generic markets, once the patent of the og drug expires, the drug's prices reduces (since all the manufacturers can produce it now openly)
US is also the country which has the highest drug prices in the world.
US is the biggest unbranded generic market with highest drug price in the world. - How is that possible? (because unbranded generic drugs should be cheap right? since no brand and its generic medicine)
Big pharma companies are making these drugs by buying cheapest API to make it as cheap as possible. They then sell it to local distrubitor in the US, who buys it at X, sell it st 2X. The cost of production of these drugs by pharma companies in 0.8X.
Means, the distributor does not reduce it's margin, because of which the pharma company survives in razor thin margin. Naturally, a pharma company would stop making the drugs for which the distributor is not ready to pay higher price.
It's not the corporates mahufacturing drug which are repsonsible, it's the middle man who is the reason for this sortage.
@adrianawalisch5562 Says:
Joe Biden’s America 🤕
@emilyullrich3431 Says:
As a disabled chronic pain patient, I can tell you that some of the shortages of CRUCIAL medications (“evil” opioids and ADD/ADHD meds, and Anxiety meds), are due to DEA production/distribution cuts (75% of the 2022 limits). @Ana, PLEASE cover this! Also please address the DIRE situation of patients who are taking pain meds as RXd, and have been stable on them, (even at high doses) for severe &/or intractable pain from incurable conditions but are forcibly tapered off of them causing an immense UPTICK of OD and suicide. There were approximately 50 million of these patients BEFORE COVID, these numbers have escalated significantly since then. Please consider covering our story!
@elitequeef Says:
Big Pharma just tryna take your money by making you pay for the brand name drugs that nobody has the money for.... keep it sleezy - you corporate fucks.
@mnemonija Says:
Obviously, factory could have raised prices if there are motivated buyers out there.
@bluedragon3598 Says:
ozempic has been a shortage for almost a year cuz people are useing it as a diet shot...................mean while ontop of the regular shortage we have people taking it to loose weight mean while People like me who are diabetic can't get the med. I'm litterally living off my doctor's samples in the office. I'm diabetic because of my autoimmune not because of my diet so it sucks even more cuz there are not many options for me medication wise.
@radnukespeoplesminds Says:
The government needs to step in and produce these drugs
@_f_6957 Says:
Not just that but also diabetes medication has been on back order for months due to the new rise in weight loss drugs that are also used for diabetes. On top of that, the US is full of addicts and we also have an adderall shortage.
@marcelomeregalliferrer6082 Says:
A few things to add… it is most manufacturing that has been off-shored: generics but branded too. Supply chain shortages are also related to quality issues and products that do not meet US standards. A great majority of products, APIs and excipients are imported, for any kind of product, generic or not. And they come primarily from one or two countries, which increases vulnerability. Generics are cheaper than branded and are low-margin, true. Their low profitability, though, is not due to the price to consumers pay but rather insurance companies and other intermediaries exerting pressure to reduce what they pay to generic companies while not lowering the cost for patients. This is why some generic products are cheaper out-of-pocket than through insurance. Corporate profiteering and lack of adequate policy is at the core: the reason why few medications are manufactured in the US, why smaller companies struggle, why consumers get screwed…
@waltermachnicz5490 Says:
How about using not generic drugs at less than cost from drug companies until these generic drugs return?
@btcsys Says:
When are you going to broach the subject of trans people "coming after our children"?
There are several videos out there showing the trans community chanting just that!
Cenk you keep bragging about how fair you are...
@warrenpuckett4203 Says:
Does not seem to be a street drug shortage.
@Damacles9 Says:
Oh, kinder, gentler Brownshirts in Congress are going to do us right?
Oligarchs laugh...
@matthewcondie4052 Says:
Capitalism: production for greed. Socialism: production for need.
@sansastark2941 Says:
just soooooo inexpensive *eyeroll*
@nonunekonsequence7641 Says:
They don't want to cure anything. Because then they can't charge you. We been saying this for... Decades? This is just a logical end result.
@King_Dusty_Of_Pookytopia Says:
Exactly how "small" is the profit margin for generic drugs?
@wallaceahtone6149 Says:
Because rich people care more abouy themselves, than their country. PERIOD.
@vampeve82 Says:
there stockpiling for the secret bunkers its all adding up now just a idea thats all
@eddielopez5708 Says:
Create a Department of Drug Manufacturing.
Let the government produce the drugs.
@Lokahi-fo-life Says:
I bet rich people are getting what they need.
@holydiver73 Says:
America has a drug shortage? We’ll have no fear, thanks to Biden and his crappy border policy, you’ll be awash with fentanyl very soon. Coming to a street corner near you!
@bjbear5202 Says:
The profit motive is the problem. Either subsidize these lowprofit drugs or make such companies operate as notfor profit entities.
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