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Why are you surprised? China, Indonesia, and India have nearly 1/3 of humanity and one Indian state has nearly the same population as the USA. If you build enough manufacturing to handle these markets modest increases in production can service the entire US market which is just good MBA style management. Once you do this you can make even more business improvement by ditching the entire US R&D effort because most business R&D is focused on solving production and process problems. Academicaly trained MDs and PhDs who have no connection wsith manufacturing and can't speak the same language as the technical workers are not worth hiring let alone being paid 3 or 4 times as much as well educated Indians or Chinese. So this is the future for a lot of well educated but unemployed Americans who sit in frustration as to why they are failing to earn anything. But remember, the people deciding to do all this are usually Americans who have no education in the sciences or engineering, They are the pharma leaders who usually came up through the financial side of the company if not from the Finacial Indusstry itself.
FDA oversight for medications is pretty much useless considering most of our chemicals come from other countries.
From the viewpoint of Glaxo-Smith Kline, Astro-Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson and other there is too much oversight by the FDA and they can keep fraudulent chemicals and contaminants out of our medications because they have done such a wonderful job in the past!
Remember the bullcrap you were fed to prevent you buying your meds on-line much cheaper from Canada?
Remember how your gov't said it was risky as they couldn't guarantee the quality?
That was back when those same drugs were being manufactured in your American pharmaceutical companies and were sold cheaper to Canadian suppliers who were merely re-selling them to you.
It's not about your health or safety; it's all about the profits and you folks just have to suck it up.
Yeah I've ran into this problem a few times, my doctor said anytime you get a prescription and you notice a difference in the way you feel, take it back to the pharmacy, they buy from whoever sells the cheapest.
Most of these company were originally from someplace else anyway. I never understood the big push for FDA inspected meds. Astra Zeneca is Swedish. GSK is British. My blood pressure medication is Japanese. So all this no competition support for Big Pharma is really global. Taking medication made in Germany is OK, made in China, not so much. That will be a problem.
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