15 points | by pkilgore 17 hours ago ago
4 comments
I'm surprised that the manufacture for basic fluids like saline/dextrose is so concentrated.
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%.
But then you just make subsidiaries?
They should also require that the subsidiaries be geographically distributed.
I'm surprised that the manufacture for basic fluids like saline/dextrose is so concentrated.
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%.
But then you just make subsidiaries?
They should also require that the subsidiaries be geographically distributed.