Lightbulb goes on
You know how wonderful it is when you don't quite understand something and then you come across a blog entry that just clears things up?Well today I was wondering why European countries tend to pass new medical drugs for public use quicker than the US FDA. It didn't seem to make sense. Luckily Stephen Den Beste was on hand to clarify:
"Europeans don't have any "rights" in the sense that Americans think of the term. What they have is privileges....Americans see themselves as partners in the nation; Europeans see themselves as chattels...Europeans don't see government as having any duty to serve the governed. ...When it comes to their equivalent of the FDA approval process, European bureaucrats don't concern themselves as much with potential dangers associated with new drugs because they don't have to. It's not that they're more courageous, it's just that they don't care as much
posted by Matthew @ 11/24/2003 06:16:00 PM
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