[corkoman]

But until now, most Americans did not realize just how bad the situation is — hundreds of thousands of people, including children, needlessly lose their lives every year because new, breakthrough drugs that have worked in clinical trials and are legal in other countries are not approved here

Hysterical myth.

If these life-saving drugs were commercially available outside of USA no one would be dying here. It is not all that difficult to get grey market drugs. The burden of efficacy proof in Spain is not what it is in USA.

But you can thank the thousands of lawyers poised to strike if a new drug does not have volumes of evidence of safety prior to US commercialization.

[surroundedbyblue]

Safety as in Gardasil? Yeah the FDA did a stunning good job on that one.