(AP) - Surgery schedules around the country may be washed out for several more weeks while a crucial IV and sterile fluids factory remains shut down for hurricane-related damage.
People often plan non-emergency surgeries in the fall and early-winter months when their insurance coverage will pick up more of the bill, but they may have to wait while health systems preserve supplies for emergencies.
I wonder what combination of legislative capture and bribery resulted in there being only ONE place in the US that manufactures IV fluids.
ReplyDeleteJohn G.
With all the offshoring of medical equipment manufacturing I'm surprised there is even ONE plant left in the US to make and fill IV bags. Far too many industries were ripped away from the US by MBA bean counters chasing the last possible penny of quarterly profit, ignoring the hazards of having someone else (who hates us) make everything.
ReplyDeleteBring those industries back home and the middle class will recover.
Incidentally, a lot of the I.V. production is done on that pile of garbage floating in the Atlantic. Baxter International Inc. which owns the currently inoperable I.V. North Cove, NC plant also has three I.V. manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico.
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