Medicare Floats Essential Medicine ‘Buffer Stock’ Incentive For Hospitals

The US is proposing to pay hospitals extra to maintain reserve supplies of ‘essential medicines’ to help mitigate shortages. But would the plan only make the problem worse?

Buffered medicine stock
Will buffering the medicine stockpile help hospitals and manufacturers? • Source: Nielsen Hobbs; the Pink Sheet | Shutterstock images

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