Steve Forbes get it better than almost anyone else these days.
Nevertheless, the REAL antidote to this malignant disease is KILLING THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL FDA. The Constitution does not delegate any power to the feds to regulate our food and drugs.
The FDA is unconstitutional and does more harm than good which is true of all the unconstitutional 80% portion of the feds.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 gives Congress the power "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes..."
“The FDA...does more harm than good”
The problem is that the FDA and federal law overreachs.
An early 1960’s safety problem of a drug was utilized to give the FDA power to insist on drug efficacy.
Your doctor would never prescribe a drug for you unless he/she thought it would work for you.
It would save everybody lots of money if the FDA just did safety checks well and drugs were sold on a money-back guarantee of efficacy and usefulness.
RE: The FDA is unconstitutional and does more harm than good which is true of all the unconstitutional 80% portion of the feds.
OK, let’s start a discussion on this. Let’s assume that there were no FDA... how do we ensure that a drug that was developed meet all the health and safety standards needed and also does what it is supposed to do?
The pharmaceutical companies are always crying crocodile tears about R&D costs but somehow always find hundreds of millions for advertising and even more for pharmaceutical reps to push drugs.