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[Cakers3]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

As long as people do not mind higher prices.

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@SeaMaiden   We pay enough already and you cannot project that the prices will rise significantly.

[Cakers3]

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@eddyandme wrote:

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.

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@eddyandme   This is important.  Whether our meds are coming out of another country or not, the cost is astronomical for many people, even with insurance.

Tier 1, 2, 3, 4-and "donut holes"-it shouldn't be this way.  I am thankful my meds are Tier 1 and 2 but if DS didn't have the VA his infusions would be a whopping $32,000 EACH on average.

[KatieB]

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@RhondaRena wrote:

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. 

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@RhondaRena I didn't know US pharmaceuticals were manufactured in China.   The US has plenty of pharmaceutical companies without trying to turn Kodak into a pharmaceutical company which will take years..

[Nightowlz]

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@shoekitty wrote:

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.

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@shoekitty 

Don't take new drugs on the market. Ask your doctor for a safe proven cheaper drug that works.

Sorry about your stomach from taking these drugs.

[Nightowlz]

I thought they were talking generic drugs which they said would be less expensive. Time will tell.

We still need to manufacture our medications in the US so hopefully we know what's in them.

[Cakers3]

Just another note regarding overseas manufacturing-my glaucoma medicine has been manufactured in Germany and in Ireland. 

It has only been the last two refills that say Made in the USA-but that still doesn't guarantee the ingredients are also made here.

People need to understand that fact.

Let's hope for everyone to have safe and cost-effective meds.  It really says a lot when people are looking (hoping) for failure  instead of thinking about all our fellow citizens who need safer, cost-effective meds.

We need to start be unified and hoping for the best for everyone, no matter who is in charge. 

Says a lot, doesn't it.

[SandySparkles]

This is such ENCOURAGING news, but I am guardedly optimistic! Up to 90% of pharmaceutical raw material is produced in other countries-mainly China.🤔

It is welcoming to think that we are at least taking the first steps in reducing our dependence on foreign pharmaceutical manufacturing!

This is some of the best news I've heard lately, although I'm not yet ready to pull out my dancing shoes!!😁👍👍

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[shoekitty]

@Nightowlz    I agree.  I had been taking Valsartan for 7 years before the foul up. The drug companies were slow to report their findings of a cancer ingredient that was made by process in the pill batch because the manufacturer cooked it too long   Thats as easily as I can explain it.  Many drug comanies make this generic drug know as Diovan. This particular company making it, fouled it up, then we switched to another company that was safe and they did some thing  a few months later to taint their batch.  And so it went.    There are very few drugs made in  usa, it is scary.  What a mess.  I am careful about all meds, because when you send them overseas and dont inspect these companies regularly, they run amuk.  

[Hippiified]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[gardenman]

Kodak has been a chemical company for most of its existence. Making the precursors and building blocks for modern medicine isn't a big change for them. Even drugs "made in the USA" are often made with precursors from overseas. Creating our own supply chain for vital pharmaceuticals makes more sense. It helps to give us more stability in an uncertain world. It's very hard to see a downside to this.