One of our top priorities at Unleash Prosperity – and what we believe to be a fundamental human right – is for people with terminal or painful illnesses to have access to whatever drugs or treatments they want.
Getting promising wonder drugs to market more quickly would also allow medical experts to have access to more data on what works and what doesn’t. As our health economist Tomas Philipson has found, getting experimental drugs approved faster would attract billions of more private capital investment into biomedical research.
Yet the medical establishment in DC cruelly treats patients afflicted with diseases like laboratory rats.
By the way, even if a drug that doesn’t really work has only a placebo effect, where the patient feels better temporarily, what’s the harm in that???
So this is all a prelude to say that “my body, my choice,” should be the default position in the health care system. It turns out that a Goldwater Institute survey finds nine-of-10 Americans AGREE with us.
Trump strongly favors this.
Mr. President: heads should roll at the FDA until this gets done.
The post How Congress and the FDA Can Save Lives appeared first on Unleash Prosperity.
