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Lower the FDA approval standards to speed the process of getting new drugs to market by a couple of years. Any patients using those drugs in the first couple of years have to sign a waiver disqualifying them from lawsuits for any negative effects. Lower the drug and medical device patent periods by two years. Limit medical malpractice awards to cost plus 10 million. Drug companies and both parties would hate these steps, so they have to be excellent moves that would dramatically lower healthcare costs.
 
Jaw said:
Lower the FDA approval standards to speed the process of getting new drugs to market by a couple of years. Any patients using those drugs in the first couple of years have to sign a waiver disqualifying them from lawsuits for any negative effects. Lower the drug and medical device patent periods by two years. Limit medical malpractice awards to cost plus 10 million. Drug companies and both parties would hate these steps, so they have to be excellent moves that would dramatically lower healthcare costs.
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whatever, Nazi

You obviously don’t get how this is played. Bitch about issue without attempting to make common sense solutions is how this nation was built son
 
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So much of the expense could be reduced if less money went to lawyers and insurance companies. Unfortunately our government is mostly made up of lawyers bought by insurance companies.
 
Jaw said:
So much of the expense could be reduced if less money went to lawyers and insurance companies. Unfortunately our government is mostly made up of lawyers bought by insurance companies.
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The legal community doesn’t like to cut off the hand that feeds them.

But it’s not being directly paid, it’s through huge settlements and claims
 
Jaw said:
So much of the expense could be reduced if less money went to lawyers and insurance companies. Unfortunately our government is mostly made up of lawyers bought by insurance companies.
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There’s certainly a lot of truth to this. I’m not sure adding an additional layer of government in the middle addresses that, but i guess we’ll see.

Rule of thumb: any time you add a process node, you are establishing a new watering hole for special interest groups and lawyers.
 
chop2chip said:
There’s certainly a lot of truth to this. I’m not sure adding an additional layer of government in the middle addresses that, but i guess we’ll see.

Rule of thumb: any time you add a process node, you are establishing a new watering hole for special interest groups and lawyers.
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Well that and overhead costs
 
Jaw said:
Lower the FDA approval standards to speed the process of getting new drugs to market by a couple of years. Any patients using those drugs in the first couple of years have to sign a waiver disqualifying them from lawsuits for any negative effects.
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Very much in favor of this. In a saner world where MAGA/Trump actually took credit for their biggest COVID victory (operation warp speed) rather than conflate it with other vaccine issues (like mandates), maybe they’d be pushing this harder.
 
mqt said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1983861676878295529

I dig it. Slash that budget, buddies.
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For some context, bureaucracy has been hamstringing the Navy for decades. The Littoral Combat Ship program was supposed to lower costs and increase presence in a post/Cold War environment. The ships were designed and budgeted to cost $90m each in the late 90s. By the time production started in 2005, the cost was $700m. The program was eventually cut from 52 ships to 36. Nearly half have already been retired because it was determined that the Littoral Combat Ship was neither fit for the littoral environment or a combat environment. That’s a quote from an admiral.

Wisely, the Navy decided to turn to an already in service design from elsewhere in the world to take its place. The Italian “FREMM” frigate was selected. Predictably, design requirements are still being changed and the budget is still increasing, despite construction on the ship beginning last year. What was billed as a fast to acquire ship costing $800m is already years behind and nearly double the cost.
The submarine and aircraft carrier programs have gone from steady and reliable a couple of decades ago ti suffering the same sort of problems recently. Meanwhile, the ships from the 80s and 90s continue to be the backbone of the fleet. And China continues to outbuild us at a rate of 6-1.
 
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