As the adage goes, "regulations are written in blood". The problem is the blood was spent before many people can remember (or bother to remember). They just know the "limitations" imposed by those regulations and therefore want to get them removed.

They also would like it if occasionally everyone reviewed legislation in light of whether it actually had a positive cost-benefit. The claim has to be something significantly more valuable than a few 100 people dying from poisons each year for the thousands to millions of deaths caused by inefficiencies in the biomedical industry. 3,000,000 people die in the US each year right now. Optimising the medical system for nimbleness and low costs is a much better path to take rather than optimising for something that is presented as a statistical rounding error.

If people don't think a drug manufacturer is safe they don't have to buy drugs from them.

Maybe it's like Jefferson's admonition that each generation must purchase their liberty in blood.

Not happy about that possibility, but it is a possibility. "What's so bad about measles, anyway?"

Like before his confirmation, when RFK wanted to Make Polio Great Again.

And Mitch McConnell, who suffered from polio when he was 2 years old back in 1944, had strong words, but confirmed the anti-vaccine halfwit anyway.

Good job Mitch!