{"id":18328,"date":"2021-06-15T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18328"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:18:29","slug":"18328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18328","title":{"rendered":"Most pharmaceuticals and protective personal equipment are manufactured outside the United States."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a host of problems; among them was the realization that most pharmaceuticals are manufactured outside the United States. \u201cIt was a shock for many people to learn during the pandemic that many of their essential medicines and products came from outside the country.\u201d Darrell West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, outlines the number of ways to improve the situation and the steps needed to decrease dependence on foreign drug-makers. Read Mr. West\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/techtank\/2021\/06\/14\/time-to-make-essential-medicines-within-the-united-states\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7795\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a host of problems; among them was the realization that most pharmaceuticals are manufactured outside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18331,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions\/18331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}