I find youtube clips boring and lazy not the poster.
The FDA are in a damned if they do, damned if they don't situation and it's been that way for years since they were crucified over the lack of progress over Aids treatment. There was also a lack of new drugs generally coming to the market as the process was taking too long.
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1985/5/cj5n1-10.pdf
The FDA was for several years constantly under threat of having its funding cut.
https://www.massdevice.com/white-house-proposes-30-cut-to-fda-headcount-reorganization/
Even if this wasn't the case its government funding only covers half of its budget.
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/fact-sheet-fda-glance.
This is what I don't understand and I'm no fan of "Big Pharma" either, but if people are prepared to vote in governments that don't provide enough funding then those people shouldn't really moan when organizations have to seek their funding elsewhere. What is it 10 dollars a year an average American pays towards the FDA?
Re: the cost of treatment - yes it's awful but I read recently, it takes a billion and a half to get a drug from concept to the shelves, and then the company only has the patent for 20 years, (around half that if you consider the time it takes for testing). Like it or not, (and it's mostly a not for me), drug companies are businesses and are there to make money.
As I've said drug companies have been operating this way for years and nobody has batted an eyelid, people are happy to look the other way.
Something big comes along that impacts everyone's freedom and it's all of a sudden Big Brother is watching us, trying to kill us, tracking us, stopping me from buying shit from the shop. Even though people have been voting in governments on both sides that have negligently unfunded institutions that were there to protect us for years.