Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Lawsuits moved to Federal Courts and Drug companies bring back drugs - Coincidence?

On Friday, February 18th, our godless president signed into law a real road block for the little guy:

On his knees giving lip service to the corporate pavers - he once again helped them pave the way to cheaper and smoother sailing when it comes to curbing Death Technology.

As we have discussed, Death Technology is a leading cause of getting things done: Big class action lawsuits
brought about because of hundreds and even thousands of complaints and often many Injuries and Deaths, resulting in new or alternate technology that ends the problem. It simply costs too much to kill and injure and ignore people anymore and the company is forced to come up with something better.

Class Action Lawsuits are good for all of us:
  1. They allow the "little guy" to group together and share the enormous expense of effective litigation against a corporate giant with a team of full time lawyers.
  2. Class Action Lawsuits help make a better and safer world by forcing bad and dangerous products/situations/practices to be made safer, better, more efficient or be removed altogether.
  3. Class Action Lawsuits often do what No "Self Regulation Board" Has Ever Done - Regulate!

Now here's my observation and question for you:

In the same week as this new law was signed - even before the Shrub had stood up - several well known drug companies put their recently withdrawn drugs back into the market fray:

An FDA advisory panel decided that Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra carry cardiovascular risks but recommended that the FDA support their being marketed. Merck is considering putting Vioxx back on the market if the FDA approves and if competing drugs stay in the market.

Since 1990, 14 drugs approved by the FDA have been withdrawn for safety reasons - only one has been reintroduced.

Do you think the new anti-consumer law and the drug comebacks are a Coincidence?

Can anyone guess who makes up the "advisory panel"?