How about 'generic' drugs? are they the best 'manufactured' they can be?
No. But will meet regulatory minimums insofar as active ingredients, purity, etc.
They don’t have a monopoly like the OP described, however. If they did? Yikes…
Notably, that kind of economy is roughly how the USSR ran, and no one praised it when it died.
How about 'generic' drugs? are they the best 'manufactured' they can be?