Drug Safety: What Is it Worth?

Regardless of any health care reform that may or may not be the focus of the current U.S. government administration, health care safety is paramount in the creation, adoption, and distribution of drugs and health care aids throughout the world.

No country wants to subject itself to deception and disguise with respect to FDA regulation, and monitoring so that it endangers its own population, or those of other nations. It might be deemed the equivalent of the atomic bomb in the sense of urgency that can trap citizens as well as professions and professionals into the negligent dispensing of unsafe drugs.

Global treaties are a necessity if outsourcing of drug manufacturing is to be a reality, and cost cutting through labor the means of producing safe health care for all. The alternative of delivering substandard products is unthinkable, either in delivering placebos or in delivering tainted goods, or substandard product.

All nations have a vested interest in health care management in a global environment where protectionism cannot be controlled in the creation, manufacture, distribution, and management of beneficial not lethal drugs, and it may be important enough to consider the negligent failure to do so an act so heinous as to qualify for criminal or hate crimes otherwise subject to the international criminal court system.

How can global distribution be approached in any other manner to insure the safety of patients otherwise?

Nations have a huge stake in providing quality health care for their citizens, and it is no longer wholly an internal matter but includes large cartels of companies and organizations involved by a myriad of means in funding, research, testing, and manufacture - well beyond the purview of local facilities and organizations to monitor and control, regardless of the type or form of government that exists within any nation, and outside the special interests of any political party - right or left.

Health care is not a political party issue to be parsed, divided, and sided to keep score, but one that affects all universally. Profits from endangerment have never been a part of capitalism that deserves honor or respect in America and keeping that promise to Americans and extending its benefits to the world is a necessary and essential consideration so that free trade and fair trade is also safe trade.