You ignorant SOB, you think tort lawyers WANT the FDA exempt from being sued! The one with the deepest pockets of all?!!!
Big Phrama is the winner in this....they are the ones who want both the FDA and themselves exempt from lawsuits.
Originally Posted by WTF
You dumbfuck... the FDA and other regulatory bodies (i.e. the swamp) are stuffed full of lawyers! So is Congress! They draft the laws to protect their own! That's why you can't fire a federal employee; you have to put them on "administrative leave" and keep paying the jackasses no matter how badly they fuck up... look at Lois Lerner - another lawyer! That bitch subverted the IRS and turned it into a political weapon - and she still gets to retire on a $102k-a-year federal pension!
In a rational world, we would be able to fire these bastards for cause, just like we do in the private sector. Let them be sued personally for any harm they do, but nobody gets to raid the US Treasury. If I do everything right and take my product to the FDA and they test and approve it and I don't bribe them, then why should I be on the hook? And if I am still on the hook, then why the fuck do we need an FDA in the first place? So they can take our tax dollars and not be held accountable for anything?
We badly, badly, badly need tort reform in this country. Limits on class action lawsuits, limits on the outrageous awards, limits on the obscene compensation of tort lawyers. Unproductive leeches. It's a fucking circus and it needs to stop now!