Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“We practice medicine in a country capable of replacing heart valves through catheters, sequencing a human genome, performing robotic surgery, supporting failing lungs with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and developing entirely new classes of medications within a few years. Yet I can walk into an American intensive care unit caring for critically ill patients and discover that a basic medicine or fluid I have used for decades is unavailable. … Americans usually think about national security in terms of aircraft carriers, missiles, energy supplies, semiconductor factories, telecommunications infrastructure, and strategic minerals. Medicines belong on that list. A country that cannot reliably supply its population with antibiotics, anesthetics, vasopressors, chemotherapy agents, sterile injectables, IV solutions, and other essential medications has a strategic vulnerability whether policymakers acknowledge it or not.” (08/28/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/americas-drug-shortage-is-a-national-security-crisis/