Re:Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzh...
by nabla9 on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:55AM
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Your argument misses some of the important reasons of the approval process.
Firstly, approval limits the legal liability for drugmakers. If we adopt a policy where approval does not exist. As long as the government takes part in the risk so it should have a say in the matter.
> treat adults as adults, and let them and their medical providers make such choices.
Signing out of medicare and all government assistance in case of becoming invalid, so that government is not in the hook for personal decisions would be a huge ask.
If 10 million individuals make the same decision independently, and it backfires, that has negative consequences for the rest of the country. One decision does not matter, millions of decisions become collective matter.
Firstly, approval limits the legal liability for drugmakers. If we adopt a policy where approval does not exist. As long as the government takes part in the risk so it should have a say in the matter.
> treat adults as adults, and let them and their medical providers make such choices.
Signing out of medicare and all government assistance in case of becoming invalid, so that government is not in the hook for personal decisions would be a huge ask.
If 10 million individuals make the same decision independently, and it backfires, that has negative consequences for the rest of the country. One decision does not matter, millions of decisions become collective matter.