I haven't made the counterclaim to that. That's not the same as saying that the FDA should rubber stamp all European approvals.
Should doctors be able to prescribe drugs approved elsewhere? When we're talking about lifesaving treatment that isn't available in the US, yeah probably there should be some process to do that. I imagine insurance companies will make this next to impossible, but that's not a reflection on your argument, just a shitty reality.
What would convince me that the FDA should rubber stamp European drug approvals? I don't know, but it would be evidence about the structure of the pharmaceutical market and the incentives in place, not a recitation of misses by the FDA.
Your evidence they aren't approving drugs fast enough is convincing, I absolutely buy that a problem exists. But that evidence doesn't address my separate concerns.
Let's say we do go ahead and rubber stamp everything coming out of Europe. What is going to happen?
There's going to be more pressure on European regulators. How are they going to respond to it?
Possibly by being corrupted and subverted and failing open. That would be bad.
The alternative is that they becoming more careful, more plodding, they start taking into account the views of stakeholders the FDA would otherwise have represented, and the process gets gummed up anyway.
I'm sorry if I came off as like, an unreasonable FDA bootlicker or as being callous to the people dying or suffering reduced quality of life due to bureaucratic incompetence, I do think that's terrible.
If what you wanted me to agree with is that doctors should be able to get people drugs that there's excellent reason to believe are safe and effective, regardless of whether the FDA has finished approving them, then yeah, I see how that makes sense.
You've only proposed one fix. I'm only opposed to one idea.
You aren't under any obligation to try and convince me of anything, but surely you don't have to put words into my mouth.