- Collective Evolution: “THE 21ST CENTURY CURES ACT” IS ON ITS WAY – HERE’S WHY YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT IT
- Hormones Matter: The 21st Century Cures Act Is Passing, No Matter How Many Patients Are Hurt
- New England Journal of Medicine: The 21st Century Cures Act — Will It Take Us Back in Time?
- STAT: 21st Century Cures Act will distort the meaning of ‘FDA approved’
- With passage of The 21st Century Cures Act, approval of new pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices will be based on surrogate measures rather than actual improvement in health outcomes. This means that drugs and medical devices will be put into the market that have not been proven to save lives or successfully treat diseases.
- Lowering the standards by which the FDA approves drugs will diminish the meaning behind FDA approval. Neither patients nor physicians will be able to trust that FDA approval means that a drug or medical device is safe or efficacious if testing that shows safety and efficacy is not required.
- Too many people are currently being killed and sickened by pharmaceutical drug “adverse reactions.” Patient safety standards need to be strengthened, not reduced.
- The 21st Century Cures Act diminishes transparency and encourages bribery of doctors by pharmaceutical companies.
- Once a drug is approved, it is very difficult to get it removed from the market. The “fast track” provisions in The 21st Century Cures Act will allow dangerous drugs onto the market, and once they’re available, the FDA is reticent to remove them.
- The 21st Century Cures Act removes informed consent requirements for medical device, drug, and vaccine safety trials. It is imperative that we maintain informed consent.
- The 21st Century Cures Act fails to address concerns about drug safety and adverse drug reactions.
- The 21st Century Cures Act doesn’t focus it’s attention on disease prevention, and it will even exacerbate the problem of pharmaceutical-caused chronic illness.
- There are more than 1400 lobbyists with pharmaceutical companies fighting for this legislation, more lobbyists than any other bill, including the Affordable Care Act. This is a lobbyist-led bill, not a patient/consumer/constituent led bill. Yet patients/consumers/constituents will be affected by lower drug safety standards.
- The 21st Century Cures Act makes devastating cuts to Medicaid, with no plans to replenish the funds that are cut.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration! Please reject this bill as it stands, and revise it until patient protections are strengthened.
Thank you,
Lisa Bloomquist Palmer
This speech from Senator Elizabeth Warren goes over some of the problems with The 21st Century Cures Act:
Thank you to all of you who take the time to contact your Senators!
I have very little hope that this bill will be stopped in the Senate, but we can at least try.
I usually try to stay away from politics in both the Floxie Hope blog and email newsletter, but this bill diminishes patient safety–especially pharmaceutical drug safety–so I think it’s important that those of us who are fighting for safer pharmaceuticals speak out about it.
Thank you, Lisa! I just submitted the letter to my senator from Texas. I hope it helps!
Thank you. That was a lot of writing. I posted it on Facebook.
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