Bill to propose federal drug comparisons

Here we go again..... Politicians going where they know nothing about what they are doing (this seems to be the way they stay inoffice). They will screw up private industry and, simultaneously, talk about less government interference. They ought to grow square mouths so they can have additional corners to talk through.

Every time you get a prescription from a doctor you are participating in an experiment and you are the "ginea pig". There are no guarantees in medicine for a very necessary reason. No matter how many people have used any drug for any length of time, there is no guarantee as to how this drug will work on you. Each and every one of us is different from the other (even identical twins are different...ask their mother), consequently, while the doctor orders your drug based on his diagnosis, deep inside, he knows all drugs have the potential for serious side effects and there is no way for him to know whether you are the one who is going to have the next one.

Doctors know side effects can cause DEATH, kidney failure, liver failure, strokes, erectile dysfunction, deafness, cataracts and so on. Consequently, they tend to use only the drugs that have a very good safety profile. Only those drugs they have successfully used before. Doctors are fully aware we live in a litigous society, therefore, doctors tend to gravitate towards those drugs with the best safety record. There are occaisions when he has to use a drug that has more side effects than usual but he has weighed this over in his mind to be sure that the seriousness of the patient's problem warrants the risk of using a drug with a riskier safety profile. In other words, what is the risk if the drug is not used?

If the government gets involved with testing drugs they will have a lawsuit for each and every one of the side effects that occur. Drug companies have insurance that covers this but lawyers love to file suits against those with DEEP pockets and the government's pockets are the deepest.