Re: Well, now
The point I was making was that not "rushing to market" also has a down side as far as lives lost. The difference is, for some reason the FDA is never held to account for that.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, a regulatory monopoly will naturally trend toward the kind of behavior a legally-enforced monopoly exhibits.
Imagine that...a government regulatory agency that ends up essentially a symbiote of the industry it's supposed to regulate. Given recent events in the Gulf, does that sound familiar? How about the financial industry? I bet we could find LOTS of examples.
Regulation needs to be competitive just like any other industry. The reasons for things like anti-trust laws apply as much to state activities as they do to businesses.