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Vinay Prasad on Pharmaceuticals, the FDA, and the Death of Duty

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Is There a Right to Health Care?

You can't tax everybody and pay for things that an aggregate don't work. Mel Flufen, this is a real drug, they took a drug from the 1960s and they added a little molecule to the side. They brought it to the market because they gave it in an uncontrolled study to people with myeloma. It's not a space where you should approve drugs based on uncontrolled studies.

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