Restoring the Sacred

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Death by Drug Shortage



Since the Obama administration feels that government should control the nation's healthcare, here would seem to be a good place to start.  It's inconceivable that this shortage of chemo therapy drugs could not be solved in a heartbeat if the FDA willed it.

Obamacare, though, was never intended to save lives, and it won't.  Cutting $1.05 trillion from Medicare over the first ten years (and $4.95 trillion over the first 20 years) is certainly not intended to save lives.  If, however, the FDA stepped in to help solve this shortage crisis (in the way mentioned by Peter Johnson, Jr), the private sector could do the rest, and lives would be saved. That's how it should work in a free country.

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