Friend and supporter of Students For Liberty, Bartley Madden, recently published a presentation of his research on the regulation of medicine under the title “Free To Choose Medicine and Right To Try” and it is available for download at SSRN.com.
It’s a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the need for a new paradigm that breaks the FDA’s monopoly on access to new medicine and compares “free to choose medicine” (FTCM) principles with the hugely successful Right To Try state-level initiative for patients facing terminal illnesses. Three future political scenarios are discussed which may lead to a near-term opportunity for FTCM principles to gain substantial bipartisan momentum.
This fact-based and to-the-point presentation could be useful for campus meetings or other instances where you’ll need to explain the upsides of reduced regulation on medicines as well as how this might happen in the current political climate.