Why do we rely on random companies to make the medicine instead of being a standard treatment?
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The medicines ARE standardized. They have certain ingredients at certain ratios.
The reason we allow multiple companies to produce them, is so that there isn’t a bottleneck. If one company goes out of business, can’t meet demand, or they have to issue a recall, we have other companies to pick up the slack.
Of course, this doesn’t apply for medications with patents, which only get produced by the owning company.
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