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.
The FDA has been doing this for decades—it’s not just Obamacare driving this. It’s also the overly litigious society.
There’s no sanction against them when they overreact, so naturally they use their power and cover their assets whenever it comes to it. A simple announcement is all thast’s needed sometimes—not even a warning—and the thing is pulled from the shelf because of the lawsuit threat. The phenylpropanolamine (PPA) fiasco was like that.