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Note that a trivial solution is just to repeal all the FDA's authority and let pharma companies sell drugs without any regulatory approval needed.  But ideally, we'd like to preserve some of the assurances of safety and efficacy that the current system provides.

Wasn't there something about forcing other countries to abandon socialised healthcare as it creates unfair playing field?

Sure, it doesn't do shit to decrease the actual pricing but at least you'ld no longer be the sole king of having shitty health care.

>>16383
I don't recall anything like that.  Closest is Trump's proposal about preventing charging Americans higher drug prices than Europeans, which would decrease prices in America and increases prices in Europe.  But this is a zero-sum game.  I'm looking for positive-sum proposals, where we decrease costs for everybody by eliminating excessive regulatory costs.  There is a lot of low-hanging fruit for decreasing the costs of clinical trials.

>>16379
If I was up to me, I'd eliminate all trade restrictions that exist whatsoever between the United States and all of the countries of the world with the singular exception of evil dictatorships that're adversary nations to humanity itself and enjoy killing innocents for fun (such as China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as well as some other countries).

All trade restrictions.

You want Canadian pills? French wines? German cars? Japanese sex toys? Mexican snack foods? Polish sausage dinners? Anything else?

Go for it. Fuck big government shitheads and fuck their restrictions of individual freedom as well as of personal economic liberty.