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Hearing aids are neither food nor drugs. Same goes for glasses and contact lenses, and CPAP machines. These should never have required approval or prescriptio
by sneak 2y ago
Hearing aids are neither food nor drugs. Same goes for glasses and contact lenses, and CPAP machines.
These should never have required approval or prescriptions in the first place. So many people are kept from getting what they need by these arbitrary restrictions.
- wtallis 2y ago> Hearing aids are neither food nor drugs. Do you really believe that the FDA needs to be renamed before it is reasonable for them to be the agency responsible for regulating medical devices? Is there a different agency you think would be a better fit?
- IncreasePosts 2y agoThe NIH?
- wtallis 2y agoThat's purely a research organization, with no existing regulatory role.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoSure. But it would work if you're just looking at names, as it seemed OP was doing.
- avianlyric 2y agoWhile we’re at it, the FDA shouldn’t regulate pacemakers, glucose monitors, artificial hearts, cochlear implants, hip replacement joints, or any other kind of surgical implant. None of them are either food or drugs, and so many people are prevented from getting what they need thanks to these arbitrary restrictions! Hmmm, on second thought, I’m not sure allowing ali express implants to be marketed the same as rigourously tested implants, with clear evidence of safety and efficacy, is such a great idea.
- bregma 2y agoSame with pacemakers, joint replacements, insulin pumps, glucose test strips, heck even bloodletting razors and leeches. You should be able to just order them online from an Amazon reseller or pick them up down at the Quickie Mart and take the risk entirely on yourself, your dependents, or your co-conspirators without no gov't meddling from so-called experts.
- stevesimmons 2y agoSo FCA regulation of CPAP machines just gets in the way of people getting what they need? How about Philips Respironics have to recall something like 15 million CPAP devices in 2021 because they contained foam liable to disintegrate and which the user would then inhale...
- autoexec 2y agoYeah, if anything that showed we need more regulation and even more importantly a better justice system. They knew their devices were going to cause cancer and kill people, and they not only continued to sell their devices, but they went out of their way to try to hide the facts from the public so that they could continue to kill as many people as possible. The people at Philips Respironics were/are literal serial killers. Their product has been linked to hundreds of deaths, but not one person spent even a single day in jail.
- hooverd 2y agoEh, we need better regulation. Regulation proponents should distinguish between bullshit hoops that only the big boys can jump through vs targeted regulations that prevent this kind of thing from happening.
- autoexec 2y agoYou're right. Regulations are critically important, but they're just tools and they can be used for evil or good depending on what they're doing and whose interests they serve.
- echoangle 2y agoDo you think having companies make defibrillators without any approval is a good idea? Those aren't food nor drugs either.
- theshackleford 2y agoI’d prefer more oversight of things like CPP, preferably it would been before I spent years inhaling cancerous chemicals.