Always has been.

Same with medical licenses, which take out the free market of ideas and innovation by not allowing anything that doesn't perfectly aligned with the lobbied-for regulations.

If terminally ill people want to undergo risky novel treatment for at least one more chance they should be able to do so.

Of course there need to be proper protocols to punish complete quacks, but it shouldn't take more than a doomed-to-die patient, an idea grounded in facts, a rigorous approach and proper risk disclosure to attempt something that could save not just one, but countless lives.

If not for governments "regulating", I have little doubt that disease, hunger and poverty would've long been a thing of the past.

The only remarkable instances of government temporarily speeding things up that come to mind were the moon landing and anything that comes out of military.

But even space travel has gone to shit under the government and has turned into just another embezzling scheme, and military doesn't function fundamentally differently from regulations.