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Re:Brave Care Has Closed by basementcat on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:09AM (#42547750)
> reform the FDA to make bringing drugs to market cheaper.

We recently tried this with some vaccines and now a large segment of the population is now vaccine-hesitant.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10257562/

> Lawyers: caps caps caps so there isn’t costly malpractice insurance.

Caps don’t always result in improved health outcomes.

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?p...

> Maybe would also necessitate a federal review board to weed out "bad doctors".

This exists; each state medical board has a procedure for reviewing medical licenses.

https://www.mbc.ca.gov/

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Re:Brave Care Has Closed by sverhagen on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:35AM (#42548147)
Didn't Jon Oliver do a bit on those review boards, pointing out how friendly to fellow doctors they generally are? I think when someone says that we need "a (federal) review board", I think they mean one that works, one with teeth.
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Re:Brave Care Has Closed by franktankbank on Monday December 30, 2024 @09:53AM (#42549779)
> We recently tried this with some vaccines and now a large segment of the population is now vaccine-hesitant.

Forced vaccination was the problem here.

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