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  • Sure. Outsourcing all of your pharmaceutical development to other countries:

    • means you are screwed in the event of a war (economic or physical)
    • means you have no control over quality of said pharmaceuticals
    • means that expertise is no longer available in your own country and you are again beholden to others because those countries can charge whatever they want or refuse to sell it to you at all (see battery tech, microchip tech, solar tech for other examples).

    You want to go over there and learn how to adapt their tech? Great. (We did that with the Japanese auto industry in the 1980s and we imported rocket expertise after WWII.) But things like drugs, food staples, and construction materials should be made at home. There’s a reason we subsidize farming.

    Personally I think the feds should be manufacturing generic drugs to ensure availability and quality, and to provide some competition to bring prices down.