“3. Elimination of the factors which drive the cost of medicines towards unaffordability. That would include both lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and government agencies which force costs into the billions to develop any new drug. There should be no suing a pharmaceutical for any drug which has passed FDA approval and somewhere between thalidamide and what we have now, there should be a happy medium. “
How do you propose to break the incestuous relationship of big pharma and congress? Pharma buys off congress to keep their cozy monopoly on drug development and distribution.
Simple reforms become almost impossible when you have to try and and force logic thru a money laundering system which is congress.
You could start by simply creating an absolutely open market for all drugs with FDA approval meaning that a drug has FDA's approval/recommendation and also that a drug with that approval was immune from lawsuits.