The states are stepping in where the feds have failed to act, spinning up their own pharma production capacity to create a #PublicOption for medicine - think of California's move to produce #insulin and other meds:

https://prospect.org/health/its-time-for-public-pharma/

Or Massachusetts's #MassBiologics, the "only non-profit, FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccines" in the USA, which sells its generic #tetanus and #diptheria vaccines nationwide:

https://www.umassmed.edu/massbiologics/

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It’s Time for Public Pharma

Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care.

The American Prospect