Now the FDA has provoked a shortage of saline solution

Saline.  A basic commodity. Salt effing water.  The only reason a market economy should run out of anything made of common ingredients (NaCL, H2O) is because the regulatory environment is bollixed beyond belief by the most bollixed agency in the history of bollixed destructiveness:  the FDA.  They make it very difficult to become a supplier, protecting the incumbent suppliers who then respond rationally by not investing in excess capacity to see off the nonexistent new entrants, then they use regulation to restrict imports, making any supply crisis unmanageable. Then lest people bitch, they use their truly life or death control over industries to muffle criticism so everyone pretends that these insane events are just 'acts of God' that no one can do anything about.  The result is that events that DO NOT HAPPEN in the normal, adult parts of our economy happen with ludicrous regularity under the half wit eye of the Federal Stupor State's bestest regulator - the one that all the others aspire to be like.

But what regulates the destructive, incompetent Federal regulator that has so much power over so many people's lives?  Not a God Damned Thing, Or Congress but I repeat myself.

Ain't the United State's government swell? Golly, let's get a lot more of that.