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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll ask why some are so hell-bent on saying that it doesn’t work and why governors are stepping in and not allowing doctors to prescribe it to their patients. [b]Why would a politician interfere between a sick individual and their doctor[/b]?[/quote]

Which politician are you referring to?  People who have existing conditions that are currently on the medication either can’t get it or pay an astronomical price for it.  That’s a fact, not opinion. Also, there haven’t been enough trials/tests to know if it does work for this purpose and under what conditions.  Again fact, not opinion. So why would you want the federal government to spend hundred of millions on something that hasn’t been proven to work, have people that use the medication for a purpose that has been researched/successfully passed clinical trials (lupus, anti-malaria) end up being sicker or dying due to not having the medication, and have people that shouldn’t take the medication (think of all the disclaimers on medicine now) die from taking it?  Oh, and this is while we still struggle to have basic things like Covid-19 testing, PPE, and respirators be available.

A direct public appeal for an unproven medication not only skips the health and safety safeguards we usually put on medication but it is also ripe for financial abuse.  Someone can lobby a politician or someone of influence to endorse their unproven product, the politician can say “it might work, why not”, millions of desperate people buy the product, the manufacturer of the product and investors make millions.  For the people making money and the person endorsing it’s a win/win proposition.  If it works, they are rich, if it doesn’t work they still have that money and there is no consequence to them personally in being wrong unless it goes catastrophically bad AND gets publicity AND the people wronged can successfully sue and collect money.  So basically low odds of ever having consequences, not unlike the old school snake oil salesman. In my opinion, the governors are stepping in to make sure the end consumer is ultimately protected and to cut down on potential abuse.  That role is similar to how government had to step in with doctors overprescribing Oxy to their patients.

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