{"id":196082,"date":"2008-05-25T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/25\/house-dems-looking-to-short-circuit-the-preemption-doctrine\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T12:20:00","slug":"house-dems-looking-to-short-circuit-the-preemption-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/25\/house-dems-looking-to-short-circuit-the-preemption-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"House Dems Looking to Short Circuit the Preemption Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few years, an obscure legal concept called the preemption doctrine, has gained increasing currency in the Federal courts.<\/p>\n

Basically, the concept is that if a medical product gets FDA approval, that this strips the consumer of any right to sue should it prove defective, even if deliberate wrong doing or a cover-up can be shown (think Viiox).<\/p>\n

There has been a big push for this by Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup>, because they believe that poor people should not be able to inconvenience large companies.<\/p>\n

In fact, the FDA supported consumer lawsuits as a way to help keep medical companies on their toes until 2002.<\/p>\n

It now appears that Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is looking at eliminating this argument legislatively<\/a>. He has started to hold hearings.<\/p>\n

Point man for the Republicans is Connecticut’s 2nd most prominent prostitute*<\/sup>, Christopher Shays, who vehemently argued the administration’s position, “juries of laymen shouldn’t be usurping the rigorous decision-making process of federal scientists.”<\/p>\n

Seeing as how politically appointed laymen are, “usurping the rigorous decision-making process of federal scientists”, throughout the Bush administration, this seems to me to be awfully weak tea.<\/p>\n

In any case, I would expect legislation some time in 2009.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Number 1 is Joe Lieberman….Come on, get with the program.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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