http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2005/12/20/should-drugmakers-be-made-bulletproof/ Freshly Brewed Bio/Pharma Chat. Served Up Daily. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:54:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2005/12/20/should-drugmakers-be-made-bulletproof/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Donald Fishman MD Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:34:37 +0000 http://www.patentbaristas.com/wp/?p=320#comment-101 The expansion of capability to provide resources for manufacture, testing, distribution, etc of vaccines should be a public health issue mandated by federal law and not left to the profit oriented, market driven decisions of the pharmaceutical industry. We will keep on getting these feckless, what's -in-it-for-me disclaimers of resonsibility from the industry as well as from congress and this administration, supposedly given responsibility for providing for the general welfare, until a stronger federal initiative is taken. Can Congress be sued for willful misconduct? Or do we have to wait for a pandemic to actually be filling the hospitals and morgues before we can upgrade the suit to wanton misconduct? The expansion of capability to provide resources for manufacture, testing, distribution, etc of vaccines should be a public health issue mandated by federal law and not left to the profit oriented, market driven decisions of the pharmaceutical industry. We will keep on getting these feckless, what’s -in-it-for-me disclaimers of resonsibility from the industry as well as from congress and this administration, supposedly given responsibility for providing for the general welfare, until a stronger federal initiative is taken. Can Congress be sued for willful misconduct? Or do we have to wait for a pandemic to actually be filling the hospitals and morgues before we can upgrade the suit to wanton misconduct?

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