Will The Defense Production Act Solve Drug Shortages?

CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered. · Dec 15, 2023 · 20m · transcript

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President Biden recently invoked the Defense Production Act to support investment in domestic drug manufacturing. It’s part of Bidenomics and is designed to bolster supply chains and increase spending at home.

What’s the strategy here? And will it work?

TOPICS

(01:08) Defense Production Act

(02:04) Using DPA in healthcare

(03:20) Criticism of DPA

(05:14) US drug costs

(07:30) Drug shortages explained

(08:19) Outsourcing drug production

(10:30) Will DPA solve shortages?

(13:19) DPA's blunt force

(18:24) Strategic stockpiles

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