I thought the FDA approval system where too big, inefficient, and didn't always addresses the right problems. I also thought solving this would significantly r

I thought the FDA approval system where too big, inefficient, and didn't always addresses the right problems. I also thought solving this would significantly reduce costs, and therefore work towards removing the need for government intervention like patents. The other comments around here show that I was probably mistaken. We probably need the FDA as it is now (or close to that), and we probably need something else to compensate for FDA's unavoidable flaws, and the sheer difficulty of doing research. It just doesn't need to be patents.