Blame capitalism? Why hundreds of decades-old yet vital drugs are nearly impossible to find
theconversation.com
The shortages, which have been going on for years, have typically affected only low-cost generics rather than profitable brand-name drugs.
  • Chaotic Entropy
    3•11 months ago

    In a free market, people can get any drug that provides sufficient profit margins to justify the market producing it. If scarcity needs to be induced to bring the profit margins up to an acceptable level… the market is free to do so.