Drug and Ingredient Reserves: Ensuring Availability in Crisis
This act aims to ensure that the United States always has enough critical medicines and their ingredients. This will provide citizens with access to necessary medications, even during sudden shortages or health crises, thereby increasing the nation's health security.
Key points
Establishing reserves of critical drugs and their ingredients to prevent shortages or public health emergencies.
Supporting domestic drug and ingredient manufacturing to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers.
Requiring pharmaceutical companies to maintain at least a six-month supply of drugs and their ingredients.
Allowing the transfer of drug reserves to other manufacturers if needed, to quickly boost production.
Status:
Introduced
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