.. or we can continue to persecute the sick, dying, and lame... raid cancer wards... perpwalks for paraplegics.
And also continue to push Pharmaceutical drugs where a simpler alternative may work well.
There are useful instances for pharma drugs...but we are way over the top with them now.
The FDA is looking for handouts. A drug named Picovir was refused FDA approval because 2 women in 1000 who used birth control pills in conjunction with Picovir got pregnant. (the normal failure rate with the pill)
ViroPharma sold the compound to one of the big pharma companies, Merck I think, and it was immediately approved for release under a different name.
IMHO it is simply because Merck greased the right palms at the FDA.