til india supplies 60% of the world’s vaccines but millions still can’t afford medicines here
I came across this today and it genuinely messed with my head a bit. india is one of the biggest suppliers of vaccines globally and a huge chunk of generic medicines used in the us also come from here but at the same time, millions of people here fall into poverty every year just because of medical expenses.
like how does that even make sense? we can produce at scale for the world, but access at home is still this fragile.
is this a pricing issue, distribution, insurance gap… or something else entirely?
curious what people here think is actually broken here
u/Legal_case16 — 3 days ago