Political Quotes

“almost no agency is more harmful to the health and pocketbooks of our people than the Food and Drug Administration. Already the FDA has driven the cost of medicine out of sight by making it unbelievably expensive and bureaucratic to get a drug approved. Now the Wall Street Journal, on its front page 2 days ago, reported on a 9-year battle the FDA has had with a small company in Illinois: Let me read a portion of this story: It is as simple as a medical device can get: two sealed plastic sheets with lubricant in between. It is laid over a woman's breast like a clot during an examination, to reduce friction. Glenda Richardson thinks it probably spared her death from breast cancer. John Withers, a surgeon at the Maui Clinic in Hawaii, says it is one of the most effective weapons against breast cancer in years. And Patricia Redmond, a New York radiologist, says it 'can absolutely save lives.' But don't try buying it in the U.S. Though many doctors and cancer specialists hail the Sensor Pad as a useful tool in detecting the disease that many women fear most, and though it years ago sailed through approval processes in countries in Europe and Asia, the Food and Drug Administration won't let Inventive Products Inc. sell it in this country. Grant Wright, the president of Inventive Products, and his father, Earl, the pad's co-inventor, have been fighting for nine years to get clearance for the product.…”