If a few die here or there no big deal, we will find out about it down the road, and if we are lucky before we take that same drug.
Picking out drugs is no different than buying groceries...
You are a typical big government conservative. All you do is give lip service to the idea of free markets. There is nothing--absolutely nothing--that you could not regulate with your logic. You remind me of liberals. Always talking about how they need to correct the free market to protect the people.
If drugs weren't regulated then the responsibility for protecting an individual from dangerous effects of drugs would fall on the company selling the drug and the individual buying the drug. If an individual was injured, he or she could sue for damages so the company has a strong incentive to making safe drugs. And consumer interest groups would form to advise consumers.
And if an individual wanted to take a dangerous drug in the small chance it could help them or for any other reason, why should the government care? Protecting people from themselves is a liberal issue, not a conservative one. Conservatives care about the rights of individuals to decide any issue for themselves. You could have posted all of your tirades on DU and nobody would have objected.
As usually with libertarians trying to play conservatives you brand anyone who does not favor your exact position as a some socialist off shoot or market strangler. And as ususal you are wrong. I love free markets and want the government shrunk down more than a little. Big difference is I want it done right so as not to create more problems that would otherwise be solved.
Now as to the FDA etc. There are some things that need regulation, be it the FDA or some other entity. Drugs is one of those. We aren't talking a defective TV here, that has an issue and you miss Monk or the Super Bowl.
Let me point something out in you statement:
If drugs weren't regulated then the responsibility for protecting an individual from dangerous effects of drugs would fall on the company selling the drug and the individual buying the drug. If an individual was injured, he or she could sue for damages so the company has a strong incentive to making safe drugs. And consumer interest groups would form to advise consumers.
The later part of that is important, because we have that now. There are groups and individuals can sue. I guess you missed that whole Vioxx thing as well as others. Has that made drug companies more responsible? No, they just up their costs and pass them on after each lawsuit. And guess what, that's even with the FDA...
Like I said, don't give me pie in the sky, give me solutions, don't give me platitudes, give me plans, realistic ones. That's what a responsible true conservative is after.