Obama's op/ed in Wall Street Journal may help our efforts with FDA

[Bill Godshall]

Barack Obama: Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System - WSJ.com

"But we are also making it our mission to root out regulations that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb."

 

[Petrodus]

Tomorrow the FDA will lay out a new effort to improve the process
for approving medical devices, to keep patients safer while getting
innovative and life-saving products to market faster.

Mmmm... I wonder if E-cigarettes are on the FDA's list of innovative
and life-saving products?

Sarcasm aside... Anything to nudge the FDA in the right direction
would be welcomed.

 

[Katya]

Yeah right.

 

[Princessdee]

Now to appoint a committee to decide which things are dumb.
"I think that's dumb"
"That's not dumb, you're dumb"
"you're dumb"

I can see it all now. $4 billion dollars later, they decide the half the committee members are dumb.

Seriously, Bill, thank you for the link. I continue to be hopeful, but sometimes even my overly-optimistic nature is disheartened by how simple this all would be if they just showed some common sense and how they're not willing to use the brains they were born with.

 

[Petrodus]

I continue to be hopeful, but sometimes even my
overly-optimistic nature is disheartened by how simple this all would be if they
just showed some common sense and how they're not willing to use the brains
they were born with.

Now that's dumb...
FDA and Common Sense mentioned in the same sentence

 

[Princessdee]

My bad.

 

[Dee74]

This coming from an administration that has imposed their will through regulation and not congress have trampled the will of the people and done more to kill industry than any other in history. I would not trust that any farther than I could throw Mr. Obama. Ask Archer coal and many in the oil fields how well regulation is working for them. His admin is putting them out of business, as he said he would. I am in health care, his regs not working well there either.

 

[BradSmith]

It sounds more like like he is talking about reducing redundancy and adding further regulations.

 

[Petrodus]

Correct me if I'm wrong...
The President of the United States of America
is not in the FDA's chain of command and thus
anything the President says is of little interest
to the them.

 

[Dee74]

You are right ,the FDA does not answer to the President, they seem to answer to no one, including judges.

Correct me if I'm wrong...
The President of the United States of America
is not in the FDA's chain of command and thus
anything the President says is of little interest
to the them.

 

[geminimind]

I'm wondering if he uses a pv. I know Wendy Williams sent him a smokestik and somebody else sent one too. Hmm

 

[Vocalek]

You are right ,the FDA does not answer to the President, they seem to answer to no one, including judges.

Congress holds the purse strings. They can (if they wish to) cut the FDA's budget.

 

[MoonRose]

Congress holds the purse strings. They can (if they wish to) cut the FDA's budget.

Though I don't see that happening anytime soon since BP is contributing to the pockets of many in Congress.

 

[Petrodus]

Congress supports the FDA because it's in their best
political and financial interest to do so.
Attorney Jonathan Emord
Only attorney in history to defeat the FDA
7 times in Federal Court - 6 times on 1st Amendment grounds

 

[Kate51]

My theory of late is to watch what the other Government hand is doing....take nothing for granted. Committees have a way of compounding obvious problems and making them worse, not better.
Case in point, the 33 "committee" and Department Heads under the banner of HHS that have the administration of all of our health care in their hands, along with the generous funding insured by new IRS rules and manpower. Seven new office buildings and 300,000 new taxpayer-funded employees who write the rules imposed on us all and do our paper-work for us are the ones we cannot keep an eye on and have no recourse with.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/20...eal-health-care-reform-is-an-opportunity.html

Legislators have only opened the Pandora's Box. That's the very small part of government that can be un-elected.

I really hope we can "repeal" the building of that new city on the Hill, but I fear construction is closer to finished than just starting.

 

[Petrodus]

You are right ,the FDA does not answer to the President,
they seem to answer to no one, including judges.

I have a question

Since the Federal Court is the only power on planet earth above
the FDA... If the FDA doesn't follow the Federal Court's rulings...
What can the Federal Court do about it (other than beg them to comply)?

 

[Kate51]

I have a question

Since the Federal Court is the only power on planet earth above
the FDA... If the FDA doesn't follow the Federal Court's rulings...
What can the Federal Court do about it (other than beg them to comply)?

The only recourse on those Departments is FUNDING DENIAL. We're in Heap Big trouble.

 

[JohnKing]

It sounds more like like he is talking about reducing redundancy and adding further regulations.

when he starts getting rid of regulators, I'll take him seriously.

 

[JohnKing]

Congress holds the purse strings. They can (if they wish to) cut the FDA's budget.

Alphabet agencies are owned by the current administration.

 

[Vocalek]

I have a question

Since the Federal Court is the only power on planet earth above
the FDA... If the FDA doesn't follow the Federal Court's rulings...
What can the Federal Court do about it (other than beg them to comply)?

Well, if they had the "nads" to do so, the court could find Margaret Hamburg in contempt and jail her until the Agency complies.