The United States depends on China for 95% of the key components that are necessary to make our generic drugs.

And if China shut the door on exports within months, our health care system would begin to collapse.

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

Rosemary Gibson is a top authority on health care policy and patient safety, and the author

of China RX, exposing the risks of America's dependence on China for medicine.

How come we don't know that our medicines are being made in China?

And for years, there was actually zero regulation.

How do we outsource production from a country with the highest standards in the world to places

with no standards?

In this episode, we dive into the realities of China's control of America's medical supply chain,

the increasing problem of contaminated medications, and what the current administration can do to fix it. A very important drug for people with diabetes, metformin.

Some of the manufacturers' versions have levels of carcinogens that just shouldn't be there.

The FDA's known about this for years, but nothing happens.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanyi Kellick.

You may have noticed it's Shen Yun season again, but I wanted to tell you a little

bit personally about why I love this show and go see it every year.

Aside from being beautiful, it's actually a homegrown American dream success story.

All things from traditional China were under attack during the Cultural Revolution and

have kind of really remained that way since.

And traditional Chinese dance was almost destroyed, but parts of it actually survived.

So what the Shen Yun people did is in upstate New York, they brought together the people that actually remembered what it was all about and kind of rekindled it, put it back together, rebirthed it in upstate New York.

They started with one company in 2006.

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