Who’s the Real Boss at the FDA?
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Yeah - no thanks. Using the example, 50 states (not including the territories) x $2M is now $100M+. All drug prices go up, and it will take even longer - both for waiting for 50+ state approvals, and the drug company submitting 50+ likely different approval packages to the 50+ states/territories.
The FDA needs to be funded by the approval requests and be a quasi-govt agency like the USPS. No federal money would be my preference, but I could also live with a strict limit (enough to fund building maint and electricity) and mandatory raises in approval charges on the pharma company.
I'd still prefer if it was just the "FA" without the drug part though.
The larger issue seems to be how do you prevent corruption from taking place? It almost seems impossible either way whether funding comes from govt or big corps. It will rot eventually.
Yeah I agree, but don't know how to fix that. We (Americans) need to reexamine all of this kind of stuff once everything is over. A ton of stuff is not in the constitution, but some amount of that stuff is certainly required for health and safety, or perhaps national security.
We have to figure out how to eliminate the illegal stuff, fund the necessary stuff, and somehow legislate it to the point it can't be corrupted.
I might have a thought for a solution though. I was a Nuclear Cyber Inspector at the NRC and they had an interesting setup. NRC made their regulations that had to be followed, but the nuclear industry created their own organization (NEI), worked with the NRC to come up with regulations that the NRC and the industry could both live with, and that made regulatory compliance far easier and palatable. It also meant the NRC would not make wholesale changes because of their agreement with NEI, and any new things were talked about between the NRC and NEI. I saw both sides of this being NRC, and later being a cyber security specialist for a nuclear plant responsible for implementing the regulatory requirements.
The same could be done with FDA. Create an industry org for Pharma, and Food, legislate that they have to collaborate, and go from there.