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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb Bush thinks the pharmaceutical industry is too regulated.
Jeb Bush "would overhaul the regulations imposed by the Food and Drug Administration to help spur innovation in the health care industry."
http://news.yahoo.com/bush-offers-plan-repeal-replace-federal-health-care-230847039--politics.html
I think we should go in the opposite direction. Not laissez-faire capitalism or the status quo.
Instead, make drug research primarily public funded, for the public interest, with results in the public domain.
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Jeb Bush thinks the pharmaceutical industry is too regulated. (Original Post)
Eric J in MN
Oct 2015
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Punkingal
(9,522 posts)1. Jeb needs to stop thinking since it only leads him into lunacy.
Vinca
(50,258 posts)2. Only Jeb would figure our drugs were too cheap and too safe.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. Jeb thinks ANY regulation of ANY corporation is too much.
Of course he is just fine with all regulations on the plebes.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)4. The Bush family own a lot of
Eli Lilly stock, so I hear.