Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country's IV fluid supply
16 points by pkilgore 9 months ago | 4 comments- andreareina 9 months agoI'm surprised that the manufacture for basic fluids like saline/dextrose is so concentrated.
- jsiepkes 9 months agoNot 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 agoBut then you just make subsidiaries?
- rapjr9 9 months agoThey should also require that the subsidiaries be geographically distributed.
- rapjr9 9 months ago
- llamaimperative 9 months ago
- jsiepkes 9 months ago