Everything You Need to Know About the Baby Formula Shortage

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16. It's some of both, plus a little of this

Anyone who's ever worked as a nurse or a pharmacist knows about artificial shortages. Big Pharma creates those all the time when a drug becomes unprofitable...an older drug that's gone generic, say, so has been "copied" or is very cheap, therefore they're losing money on it. So suddenly there's a "shortage", i.e. they've stopped making it for awhile. Oopsy. Then somehow they manage to get a new patent on it so they can raise the price, or maybe they can raise the price just because it was in short supply for awhile, or they come out with a slightly remastered version of the drug.

Watch the price of formula rise when it suddenly is more available again.