Yeah, there are a lot of safety-related things because we keep getting a vioxx every so often that's killing people.
I'm not willing to increase my chance of getting killed by medicine on behalf of someone else's profit margin. They have a big, powerful lobby, they should suggest process improvements. And make some on their end, as well, nobody's charging them billions in fees, they spend that money on the typical big-company waste in the process of complying with those regs.
Note that we still got a Vioxx on the market even though we had those tons of regulations in place. There was a similar scandal in France recently with another drug called Mediator. Truth is, regulations do not replace ethics - Corporations knowlingly allowing patients to be hurt should be punished accordingly - there is no need to inflate regulations further and further, this has never solved the problem, just like regulations in the financial industry will not make crooks disappear.
I never mentioned about removing all regulations in place. But things can be done to restrict their scope to where they were before, to manage the development of drugs at a more reasonable cost.
I'm not willing to increase my chance of getting killed by medicine on behalf of someone else's profit margin. They have a big, powerful lobby, they should suggest process improvements. And make some on their end, as well, nobody's charging them billions in fees, they spend that money on the typical big-company waste in the process of complying with those regs.