When government works, it looks like this
Truly impressive look from NPR reporter Gretchen Kuder-Croen at how the FDA changed its mind following its own February 2011 approval of a drug aimed at helping prevent premature births. The manufacturer tried to price a drug that had previously cost expectant mothers about $300 at the amount of about $30,000 per treatment. Doctors and patients protested, a senator intervened, and the FDA took corrective action. This report is worth listening through as a primer on how government can work. And it only took the FDA two months to change course on its own decision, which is lightning fast in government time.
