Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country's IV fluid supply

16 pointsposted a year ago
by pkilgore

4 Comments

andreareina

a year ago

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

jsiepkes

a year 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

a year ago

But then you just make subsidiaries?

rapjr9

a year ago

They should also require that the subsidiaries be geographically distributed.