Topic: Another look at the Avastin "controversy"

[Pandora]

Though the media has been attempting to spin this story as if it were a new development, it is anything but; try as they might, the Left played their cards long ago…long before any supposed claims regarding concerns of the safety and efficacy of the drug – It has been over a year since the FDA was first instructed to revoke approval of Avastin – not because of its effectiveness, but because of its cost Initial reports make no mention of concerns regarding safety and efficacy; safety and efficacy – the sole standards in which the FDA is to cast judgement – never cost to customers. The FDA claims that Avastin has “negligible” positive effects, and that its statistically “negligible” negative side effects are more concerning. Despite several independent clinical investigations proving that the drug delays tumor growth between 30% and 50% above chemotherapy alone.

A suspicious individual might find it questionable that efficacy and safety only became a concern after the Avastin controversy came to the public’s attention; or that reports of “dangers” and “concerns” are suddenly and drastically being revised after the decision to revoke the drug had been made; or that Avastin is still approved for other (cheaper and less fatal) forms of cancer…

…or that generic competitors, who are heavily favored by the Obama administration over “big bad eeevvviiilll pharmaceutical companies who drastically reduced political contributions since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be favored by the US government to continue to manufacture and distribute the drug (generic name, “bevacizumab”) for breast cancer treatment without having to jump through the hoops of a massive FDA circus trial, all the while being covered by insurance plan – Never mind the fact that these companies were not required to invest massive amounts of time and money in Research & Development…

…but then again, we always knew that was the plan; like any dictator worth his weight in salt, Obama “just so happens” to have a benevolent solution to the very problems he helped initiate.

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