…not a disease? Thoughts on the potential for mass murder by FDA bureaucrats.
6 thoughts on “When Is A Disease…?”
Who needs death panels? Just declare it (cancer, diabetes, whatever) not a disease and then don’t offer treatment because its no longer a disease. Simple.
So, doesn’t that panel then become the death panel? 🙂
and then don’t offer treatment because its no longer a disease. Simple.
The problem claimed here is even worse. If something is not a disease, hence the FDA doesn’t recognize the treatment. What the author is alleging is that as a result, the treatment won’t be approved by the FDA in such a case. In analogue to your words above, the problem would be that not only is treatment for a non-disease not paid for, it wouldn’t be allowed.
I honestly don’t know the state of things in this field, but given such cosmetic treatments as botox, I imagine there is leeway to make treatments for medical conditions that aren’t considered diseases by the FDA.
And I see the usual anti-life extension garbage in the comments thread. Why do we need to consider how life extension affects retirement or promotion? These don’t even sound like difficult problems to me, much less something that we need to consider each time we make peoples’ lives better. And there’s a bit of bad poetry as well.
Poetry and promotion, always good arguments for what ails you.
If a drug doesn’t do what it claims or kills people, wouldn’t the consumer regulate it by not buying it? So why do we need an FDA? One department down, one step closer to a government of the proper size.
@Titus: If it’s not a disease, then Obamacare just doesn’t apply. No death panel needed.
Who needs death panels? Just declare it (cancer, diabetes, whatever) not a disease and then don’t offer treatment because its no longer a disease. Simple.
So, doesn’t that panel then become the death panel? 🙂
and then don’t offer treatment because its no longer a disease. Simple.
The problem claimed here is even worse. If something is not a disease, hence the FDA doesn’t recognize the treatment. What the author is alleging is that as a result, the treatment won’t be approved by the FDA in such a case. In analogue to your words above, the problem would be that not only is treatment for a non-disease not paid for, it wouldn’t be allowed.
I honestly don’t know the state of things in this field, but given such cosmetic treatments as botox, I imagine there is leeway to make treatments for medical conditions that aren’t considered diseases by the FDA.
And I see the usual anti-life extension garbage in the comments thread. Why do we need to consider how life extension affects retirement or promotion? These don’t even sound like difficult problems to me, much less something that we need to consider each time we make peoples’ lives better. And there’s a bit of bad poetry as well.
Poetry and promotion, always good arguments for what ails you.
If a drug doesn’t do what it claims or kills people, wouldn’t the consumer regulate it by not buying it? So why do we need an FDA? One department down, one step closer to a government of the proper size.
@Titus: If it’s not a disease, then Obamacare just doesn’t apply. No death panel needed.