FDA doesn't act on post-marketing data

Drug companies are supposed to give the FDA all data on a given proposed new drug, but often omit data that suggests that the drug might be dangerous. It is only after people die that the lie of omission is discovered, and punative damages in subsequent lawsuits mount. But the awarded damages, even with punative damages, does not come close to the profit earned from the sale of the drug. So, there is no incentive to stop hiding information from the FDA. If a murderer writes a book on the crimes he has committed the laws on felonies prevents him from profiting from the sale of that book. Why should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to profit from the sale of a drug where the data on that drug was intentionally hidden from the FDA that is supposed to rubber stamp their safety guarentee on the product? The FDA needs bigger teeth, the drug companies should be made to give up every dime they earn on a drug they lied about-including any interest earned on that money- and ONLY sell products that they have been 100% forthcoming with. If it can be shown that the company new of a danger ahead of the FDA and didn't tell them shut them down.

All data is presented to the FDA and the reviewers at the Advisory Committee Meetings and is reviewed by the FDA! For every pharmaceutical company causing trouble for the FDA there are thousands of doctors milking Medicare & Medicaid that are never investigated or prosecuted. All of you do it and the fraud is so rampant that only the huge ones are ever gone after. Why do you think that the FDA was so fast at endorsing every scheme that had someone else paying for someone's healthcare! The ole ponzi trick, when someone else pays it's not really your money, now it is and we're all screwed! But wasn't it always our money. Nothing is ever free for anyone! The FDA has teeth but never uses them! Punish Pfizer for Neurontin and let managed care substitute it in neuro pain for the branded agent, Neurontin generic still has no indication! You figure!