Tell me: how do you prove that a drug hurt you?

Spoiler alert: you cannot.

The reason clinical trials are so expensive and complicated is because it's extremely hard to isolate signal of "what is this drug doing to people."

So on what basis would you possibly sue a company?

As another commenter said, we have an entire industry of the form you desire: supplements. Go take them to treat your next illness so you can really experience the creme de la creme that FDA is apparently keeping from you. Good luck suing for lack of effectiveness or for any harms you encounter.

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monero-xmr 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Insurance companies will not cover ineffective drugs. Pharma will have to prove efficacy. Allow free people to spend their own money how they want

	▲	sorcerer-mar 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What incentive does an insurance company with an expected coverage period of 4 years have to prevent a drug with long term harm from reaching its patients? What about drugs that people do not buy via insurance? Just have a free for all there? Why wouldn't pharma just release the drug to the public at very low cost to use the unwitting public as its test subjects instead of running trials to satisfy insurance companies? If a bunch of people die then welp, you know not to pursue "insurance approval?" Can't see how we could go wrong by making it very difficult to sell a working, expensive drug, and make it extremely cheap to sell a mass-market ineffective/unsafe drug...