The Department of Making It Hard to Approve Drugs making it hard to approve drugs because they, like a majority of citizens in this country, think it should be hard to approve drugs is a problem but not the same problem as corruption.
That’s not what I said.
Punishing companies for using explicitly legally available methods to give out drugs according to compassionate use is not the same thing as generally making it easy or hard to approve drugs.
The FDA did try to coerce companies not to do what congress and the president wanted companies to do by passing the compassionate use exception. That’s distinct from the general question of whether drugs should be hard or easy to approve. It’s not working with the mob, but it’s an agency intentionally working against the democratically legitimized institutions of congress and the presidency.
That’s not what I said.
Punishing companies for using explicitly legally available methods to give out drugs according to compassionate use is not the same thing as generally making it easy or hard to approve drugs.
The FDA did try to coerce companies not to do what congress and the president wanted companies to do by passing the compassionate use exception. That’s distinct from the general question of whether drugs should be hard or easy to approve. It’s not working with the mob, but it’s an agency intentionally working against the democratically legitimized institutions of congress and the presidency.