The ONLY thing that should require a prescription is where the public health is threatened (e.g., to prevent overuse of antibiotics, which allows an individual to spread drug-resistant pathogens).
The FDA already hates me but I don't care. They killed a friend of mine, so the feeling is mutual.
I wonder how many people the FDA has killed with their irresponsible drug decisions.
First Avastin, then a thousand other drugs and treatments. If you look at other cancer or auto-immune or stem-cell or bone marrow treatments, you will realize that many, many of them are just as expensive as Avastin. This is only the beginning. Soon the feds will only allow for the dispensing of aspirin, maalox, and hemorrhoid medications. That is what our arsenal will be whittled down to. They will force all R&D to stop and the drug companies will go the way of the vaccine makers. Every new medicine is very expensive in the beginning, then the drug companies usually reduce the cost and let their patent run out. Right now we are being threatened by a new bacterium that is completely resistant to any and all antibiotics. Do you think big pharma is going to invest billions to create a new silver bullet, just to be squashed by our FDA? We might as well go back to bleeding our patients, as that is cheap and will most likely be the only therapeutic approved by our FDA.