How about the FDA process being voluntary rather than mandatory?
Then it is an issue of personal choice as to whether you choose to be safe of choose to take a chance on a medicine that may help. As it is an informed choice there is little to no liability for the provider.

Drugs that are in use in nearly every country but here are prohibited for use by even terminal patients because of not being "approved" by the FDA. In spite of the level of positive outcomes by patients that have used the medicine or procedure! Is it fair for the FDA to condemn these people to death just because ALL of their hoops have not been cleared?

Quote Originally Posted by SadisticNature View Post
A lot of medicines pass trials and then get pulled for safety reasons. So lowering standards to lower costs would be suicidal. Or do we want to forget about all those drugs that the drug companies have been sued over and stopped making for problems. After all these drugs got through testing as is without problems. If anything lowering the standards is going to raise costs because the companies will have more problematic drugs in the market and higher legal damages from said drugs, raising the price of every drug that company makes.