needed for a number of life-threatening illnesses, including cancer and bacterial infection. caroline shively is live in washington. what drugs are not available and how did this happen? >> a number of drugs, rick. drugs used to treat breast cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, leukemia and types of bacterial infections. many are a couple of dollars a pill. normally. but the price increased to 20 times that in some cases. the majority of the shortages are because inspectors found contamination problems with batches of the drugs. some advocates say that's because so many are made in foreign plants that the f.d.a. doesn't inspect. but the f.d.a. says others occurred because the companies aren't interested in making drugs that have such a low profit margin. >> rick: what's the plan? what's the government going to do to fight this shortage? >> they're considering a couple things. the administration is considering creating a stock pile of the dry ingredients for the drugs, like they do for other drugs. they would store them and send them out to pharmacists in case of a shortfall and the
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