Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country's IV fluid supply

arstechnica.com

16 pointspkilgore4 comments

I'm surprised that the manufacture for basic fluids like saline/dextrose is so concentrated.

Not much money to be with it made probably. In the end scale advantage will ensure only a couple of suppliers remain.

Hospitals could prevent this by making rules like a single supplier of these generic things can't supply more than X%.

But then you just make subsidiaries?

They should also require that the subsidiaries be geographically distributed.