Posted on 07/14/2018 6:54:40 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
The FDA has a revolving door with Pharma. The two are joined at the hip and entirely corrupt.
No. I mean a real audit.
Yes, absurd x1000
A third of FDA’s comes directly from the companies they’re regulating.
They’re corrupt to their eye teeth.
https://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/UserFees/PrescriptionDrugUserFee/ucm152775.htm
That was Supposed to read a third of FDA’s Budget
The FDA is much needed or these pot heads will legalize grass, cocaine ,heroine and crack as good for brain health.
The “official” aspect of the FDA should be no more than a recommended seal of approval of quality, like the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval”, but it should not be legally incumbent on anyone, medical practitioner or individual to follow the FDA recommendations. They should be legally free to not follow FDA recommendations, as long as that fact is admitted and accepted by those doing so.
Part of the Progressive agend is the rule by experts, and from it all these government agencies of so-called experts.
But the idea is patently absurd and illogical.
Who in their right mind can think that merely by appointment as “the officials” that the regulatory agency experts magically become the very best and most perfect experts possible with no rational room left for any different, and equally expert, view as theirs? No one who stops and thinks about it. Yet, that is the whole purpose of the regulatory state and its “experts” - the silencing of any other views, and making any other views non-operational in a matter.
It is really NOT about obtaining the most perfect answers. It is merely 100% about control, by government.
Left to the marketplace, there would be multiple FDA style medical ratings agencies handing out their own recommendations and obtaining followers for them by practical experience of medical practitioners and individuals, not by government writ.
Here’s a test. If a doctor or medical facility follows the FDA rules to the letter on some matter, can they, in spite of that, still be sued by a patient for some adverse result, even though they did everything exactly as the FDA says they should? Yes. So, following the FDA is actually not a legal protection for the health care industry, other than legal hurt from the FDA for not following their writ.
Yes, the FDA should be canned and let a private industry of medical & drug ratings outfits bloom.
What is it doctors owe patients? That they follow the FDA? No. The patient is owed transparency of the knowledge, as best as it is known, about any medicine or procedure the doctors want to use. That might include, as mere fact, but not a deciding fact, that the drug or procedure does or does not have the recommendation of such and such ratings outfit.
Medical practitioners will be no better or worse off for it. The FDA is not now a “hold harmless” shield for them. Their own due dilligence about the product or procedure will, at the end of the day, as it is now, decide if they did right by their patient.
What do you think those are?
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