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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (5430)	4/10/2008 1:20:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

This is near the opposite of that strategy with the roads. Its the idea that new drugs should be treated as risky, but not pulled from use. You only know they are really safe and effective after wide spread use. The argument here is that you approve them (perhaps even faster, making more of them available) but monitor them closely after approval, and allow a certain "use at your own risk", for possibly beneficial drugs. The idea that the drug isn't safe and effective if it isn't approved, but is if it is approved, is false on both ends. Letting people use drugs while continuing to collect data on them sounds like a good idea IMO.