But it turns out there was a threshold somewhere, where if the FDA suppressed supply too much, the damage becomes impossible to ignore and the FDA becomes the subject of a proper scandal.
Outside of niche circles, how is blame actually distributed in this case? Does the FDA in fact get enough blame, or does everyone blame the other side, or capitalism, or the unsafe plant, etc.?
For bureaucratic institutions, errors only matter if people in fact blame them for those errors. Otherwise, they have no incentives to improve. Not to mention that there’s at least one case (an earlier inspection of the Abbott plant) where they might instead get blamed for being insufficiently strict.
Outside of niche circles, how is blame actually distributed in this case? Does the FDA in fact get enough blame, or does everyone blame the other side, or capitalism, or the unsafe plant, etc.?
For bureaucratic institutions, errors only matter if people in fact blame them for those errors. Otherwise, they have no incentives to improve. Not to mention that there’s at least one case (an earlier inspection of the Abbott plant) where they might instead get blamed for being insufficiently strict.