Here’s a disturbing headline:

At the very time we should be putting new promising drugs on the market, the FDA is slowing down approvals.

Regular readers of the HOTLINE know that we’ve argued (as Milton Friedman often did) that the FDA kills far more people than it saves. That’s because of the needlessly lengthy drug approval process that denies Americans with terrible and painful diseases the right to take medications that may or may not help them.

So we have a radical idea: What if patients had the right to try any drug they want? There could be two types of drugs: those that have FDA approval and those that don’t.  For the latter, we would simply require a warning on the bottle: NOT FDA APPROVED.

This would allow patients to try a whole range of experimental drugs and treatments. The only requirement would be basic safety testing.

Why not a drug policy based on the principle of: “my body, my choice”?  Why is it that people have to fly to South America to get very promising stem cell treatments still not allowed here?

None of this makes ANY sense to advancing health and well being.

What do you think?