Libertarian Land: Rethinking the FDA

If the FDA approves a bad drug, the adverse outcomes make headlines. If the FDA delays a good drug, the cost is less obvious because most of those affected are not aware their illness could have been treated more effectively.

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Food and Drug Administration offices at Silver Spring, Maryland. Via Wikimedia Commons

Over the past two and a half years, critics old and new have blasted the Food and Drug Administration for excessive caution and bureaucratic delay in response to the Covid crisis. 

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