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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who works in pharmaceuticals and recently dealt with a shortage. It's complicated. Part of it is supply & demand. Sometimes demand goes up an manufacturers can't react fast enough. There has been a lot of merging & buying of companies. As an example, 10 companies make a generic drug, but only 2 supply the starting material to make it. Those 2 have trouble manufacturing then everyone suddenly can't manufacture it. Profit is another part of the puzzle. If there is no profit, the incentive to manufacture deminishes. Usually a shortage will drive the price up 10-20x. It's not as though drugs grow in trees. They are subject to many market forces. It's unfortunate, but micro premies are incredibly delicate and I would imagine many things could go wrong besides supplement issues.[/quote]

If the free market can't handle it, then it has to become a basic "commodity" controlled by the govt.  That's how things should work.[/quote]

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