Comments on: Why Not Have The Government Approve Our Car Choices Too? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/why_not_have_th.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Zoran Lazarevic http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/why_not_have_th.html/comment-page-1#comment-591 Zoran Lazarevic Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:41:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/why_not_have_th.html#comment-591 <p>Abolishing FDA would make drugs and devices cheaper and more effective on average. Unfair practices by drug makers would also be much more common, such as:<br /> - false advertising (direct or through doctors, like today - but more)<br /> - using drug addiction to increase sales (like tobacco industry today)<br /> - using short-term positive effects to bump up short-term sales, on the expense of patients suffering long-term effects.</p> <p>I think there is a significant difference between buying a Plymuth or Hyundai to suffer from high maintainance cost; and buyin an addictive drug to suffer from diarrhea for the rest of ones life.</p> <p>Being in the biomedical industry for several years, I see pros and cons both ways. <br /> </p> Abolishing FDA would make drugs and devices cheaper and more effective on average. Unfair practices by drug makers would also be much more common, such as:
- false advertising (direct or through doctors, like today – but more)
- using drug addiction to increase sales (like tobacco industry today)
- using short-term positive effects to bump up short-term sales, on the expense of patients suffering long-term effects.

I think there is a significant difference between buying a Plymuth or Hyundai to suffer from high maintainance cost; and buyin an addictive drug to suffer from diarrhea for the rest of ones life.

Being in the biomedical industry for several years, I see pros and cons both ways.

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