The reason why very few REAL miricle drugs come on the market anymore.

I was watching 20/20 some time back. It was an interview with Christopher Reeves. The question was put to him by Barbara Walters why we are so far behind other countries when it comes to research, without missing a breath, he said that medical research scientists in this country are too timid. I would have to agree with that assessment. If I were a company trying to bring a wonder drug to market, not only would I have to sink millions of dollars as well as years of research only to have the FDA drag their heals for decades before it was approved while millions die at the hands of their bureaucracy. Then the parasites come out of their crevice to bilk these drug companies for millions while they try their luck at the medical mal-practice lottery. This is a very accurate picture of what is going on and we all suffer for it and it places our country in a obsequious position in relation to all other countries. The cure for this situation? Tort reform, loser pays. Simple, yet so effective. Send the parasites back to the holes they came from. Stop pushing paper from one desk to another and streamline productivity.

John Wilson

Longview, WA.