[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . the agency is beholden to the biopharmaceutical industry which pays three quarters of the FDA’s budget used for the drug review process."

This is crazy. Why aren't they budgeted in the normal way, through tax dollars? Why allow such an obvious potential for conflict of interest?

[ptsal]

Government for sale.
Pay to play..... Rule #1

[Vendome]

The public was clamoring for drug approvals that made more sense.

Drugs in Europe had long been approved years before they could be approved in the USA and US citizens seeing positive results wanted drugs approved here as well and on the same time line.

The givernment couldn’t approve them fast enough with their budget limitations so they hatched this crazy partnership scheme with the BioPharma Industrial Complex and this is what we got.