Congress can and must act to help alleviate unprecedented drug shortages ...Middle East

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Acute drug shortages are threatening the health care of millions of Americans at an escalating rate. Roughly 300 medications are currently in short supply, mostly low-cost generics, which account for 90 percent of the drugs used by patients. Hospitals are facing severe and prolonged problems securing sterile injectable generic drugs, including older chemotherapy drugs used to treat, and sometimes cure, cancer. For some of these medications, there are no other options, leaving hospitals and clinicians to ration medication or even delay care. Congress cannot stand by and let Americans suffer. These dangerous shortages are caused largely by extreme price competition in the generic drug ma

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