« BackHelene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country's IV fluid supplyarstechnica.comSubmitted by pkilgore 9 months ago
  • andreareina 9 months ago

    I'm surprised that the manufacture for basic fluids like saline/dextrose is so concentrated.

    • jsiepkes 9 months ago

      Not much money to be with it made probably. In the end scale advantage will ensure only a couple of suppliers remain.

      Hospitals could prevent this by making rules like a single supplier of these generic things can't supply more than X%.

      • llamaimperative 9 months ago

        But then you just make subsidiaries?

        • rapjr9 9 months ago

          They should also require that the subsidiaries be geographically distributed.