It’s Time To Track The FDA’s Death Toll

[Weatherman2020]

It’s been that way for decades, started in the Clinton era. It would take years for our stuff to make it thru the regulatory gauntlet that should have taken a week. When you complain about the costs of drugs and medical devices, you’re looking at the FDA as the primary culprit. Yes, the companies make nice profits. It’s the only way to attract investors to risk millions of dollars in the slim hope that years from now it will get approved.

And FDA approval means nothing for liability. Just because the FDA approves something means zero for liability in lawsuits because that one person in a million dies from aspirin.

“The Food and Drug Administration helped turn the coronavirus from a deadly peril into a national catastrophe. . . . Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for the principle of bureaucratic supremacy? The FDA’s current commissioner, Stephen Hahn, conceded last week: ‘There are always opportunities to learn from situations like this one.’ Perhaps the clearest lesson is that it is time to track the death toll of FDA regulatory debacles.”

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Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for the

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[Weatherman2020]

Pogo thinks Americans dying from government regulations is funny.

 

[Pogo]

It’s been that way for decades, started in the Clinton era. It would take years for our stuff to make it thru the regulatory gauntlet that should have taken a week. When you complain about the costs of drugs and medical devices, you’re looking at the FDA as the primary culprit. Yes, the companies make nice profits. It’s the only way to attract investors to risk millions of dollars in the slim hope that years from now it will get approved.

And FDA approval means nothing for liability. Just because the FDA approves something means zero for liability in lawsuits because that one person in a million dies from aspirin.

“The Food and Drug Administration helped turn the coronavirus from a deadly peril into a national catastrophe. . . . Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for the principle of bureaucratic supremacy? The FDA’s current commissioner, Stephen Hahn, conceded last week: ‘There are always opportunities to learn from situations like this one.’ Perhaps the clearest lesson is that it is time to track the death toll of FDA regulatory debacles.”

It's Time to Track the FDA's Death Toll | Mises Institute

Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for the

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See this?

Know what that is?

Thalidomide baby. Stunted limbs, major health problems, for life.

Looks like England, could be Germany, Austraila, even Canada. Thousands of them were born with mutations like this. All over the world.

But not here.

Why weren't they born here?

Because the FDA did its job and put up the stop sign, that's why. The whole world suffered with this bad drug, pushed by a profitmongering drug company. EXCEPT in the United States.

Meet Frances Kelsey, the FDA official who stood up to Big Pharma and when Pharma protested, said no even stronger, getting a medal from the POTUS.

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You can read much more about her here in my tribute thread I wrote upon her passing at the age of 101.
Five years ago.

 

[Norman]

It’s been that way for decades, started in the Clinton era. It would take years for our stuff to make it thru the regulatory gauntlet that should have taken a week. When you complain about the costs of drugs and medical devices, you’re looking at the FDA as the primary culprit. Yes, the companies make nice profits. It’s the only way to attract investors to risk millions of dollars in the slim hope that years from now it will get approved.

And FDA approval means nothing for liability. Just because the FDA approves something means zero for liability in lawsuits because that one person in a million dies from aspirin.

“The Food and Drug Administration helped turn the coronavirus from a deadly peril into a national catastrophe. . . . Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for the principle of bureaucratic supremacy? The FDA’s current commissioner, Stephen Hahn, conceded last week: ‘There are always opportunities to learn from situations like this one.’ Perhaps the clearest lesson is that it is time to track the death toll of FDA regulatory debacles.”

It's Time to Track the FDA's Death Toll | Mises Institute

Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for the

mises.org

See this?

Know what that is?

Thalidomide baby. Stunted limbs, major health problems, for life.

Looks like England, could be Germany, Austraila, even Canada. Thousands of them were born with mutations like this. All over the world.

But not here.

Why weren't they born here?

Because the FDA did its job and put up the stop sign, that's why.

No amount of images or whiny rhetoric makes your unfounded case any more true.

FDA is getting in the way, and getting people killed.

 

[linux07]

 

[linux07]