[DoughtyOne]

If I understand you correctly, you wish to allow the FDA to levy fines instead of allow patients to bring suits. I can't agree to that idea.

Let's say your mother takes a medication that causes permanant blindness. She and 250,000 other citizens are blinded. Do you think these folks should be unable to bring suit?

Sorry if I misunderstood you, but individual compensation is integral to a solution. I don't want to see folks given $10 million a shot, but it's a crime in and of itself to deny people recourse IMO.

[neverdem]

Let's say your mother takes a medication that causes permanant blindness. She and 250,000 other citizens are blinded. Do you think these folks should be unable to bring suit?

There is a drug that can cause blindness that is used to treat refractory rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus and susceptible malaria. It's called hydroxychloroquine and Plaquenil, generic and trade names, respectively. Patients taking it need ophthalmologic, i.e. eye, exams every six months, not lawsuits. Without it some patients' medical conditions become worse, or they have to take more expensive or more toxic medicines.

Lawsuits based and won on junk science, ignorant juries and self appointed medical experts should go the way of the Do Do bird.

[FormerACLUmember]

Let's say your mother takes a medication that causes permanant blindness. She and 250,000 other citizens are blinded. Do you think these folks should be unable to bring suit?

This is an utterly bogus argument and you know it. The FDA would have long, long since pulled this medication if it caused 25 cases of blindness.