Community Chat

[RhondaRena]

I am so encouraged  more of our pharmaceutical drugs will be manufactured in the US through Kodak. This will help our dependence on China and create more jobs. I find this as wonderful news. 

[SeaMaiden]

As long as people do not mind higher prices.

[esmerelda]

 @SeaMaiden Nobody will be forced to buy. 

[Oznell]

Thanks, @RhondaRena for conveying this news.  These step-by-step changes, whether small or big, are welcome, and good to know about.

[Kachina624]

@RhondaRena    That is indeed good news if it actually comes to pass.  Often, it seems, these plans are figments of somebody's imagination.

[eddyandme]

Yes, it's about time!  And. hopefully, more of our companies will come back soon!  Give me USA made goods any day!!

Price-wise it was just announced yesterday that ceiling on pharms will match all other countries - contrary to what's been going on for soooo long.

As far as paying higher prices on manufactured goods - if that's the cost of safety, quality and freedom so be it.  But in time. it'll all level off once good old American competition is restored.

[fthunt]

Yes, heard it on the news tonight but didn't get much detail as I was doing 12 other things.  There will be more info in coming days.  Kodak certainly has the buildings - miles of them - so hopefully this will lead us forward.  Kodak slipped badly behind Japanese camera/film production.  They need something too.

[Catiele]

Kodak stock is way up today thanks to the news. 

[shoekitty]

For a company that has never done this ever, it will be a fiasco getting started.  hopefully, a year  or two from now when they  start manufacturing, we will benefit.   I am just always a little leary.  Because they aways say one price, then costs go up, and we get the brunt of it.  I will happy, no...ecstatic, to see drugs made here.  It is not just the cost, which I think wll not go down, it is the safety which will be improved.   I have been been  the guinea pig for 4 drugs that were recalled.  The last , the Valsatan fiasco, really affected me.  It is not that India did it once....they contaminated it 3 times.  We never know what will happen.  My stomach is messed up due to the Valsartan contamination.  I was one who was taking it for months before they knew the foul up was cancerous.

[eddyandme]

@shoekitty 

Kodak can do it!  Remember just months ago auto manufacturers switched over to making breathing devices!!  And they did it quickly and efficiently!