President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering Jim O’Neill, a libertarian and Silicon Valley investor with no medical experience, as head of the FDA and that has some healthcare experts concerned.
O’Neill has made controversial statements about the federal safety watchdog, including in 2014 when he said that the agency should no longer evaluate whether medical devices or drugs are effective when considering them for approval.
“We should reform FDA so that it’s approving drugs after their sponsors have demonstrated safety and let people start using them at their own risk, but not much risk of safety,” O’Neill said, according to The Hill. “But let’s prove efficacy after they’ve been legalized.”
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