Newsmax reports that Dick Durbin and Dick (Richard) Blumenthall, both Democrat Senators, submitted a bill in July to reclassify vitamins and supplements to place them under the management of the Food Ad Drug Administration. The bill was issues within days of the FDA floating new guidelines that w
would subject the currently affordable supplement market to the same testing and reporting regime as any other drug.
Long story short, if the regs went into place the vitamin shelf at the store would be emptied until supplement makers submitting test results to the FDA and the products were approved. And the added cost for battling the bureaucracy and testing regime? You’d be paying the added costs when the products went back on the shelf, if they ever did.
Oddly enough, big Pharma is already equipped to deal with the testing and administrative hurdles, and fully prepared to fill the void created by Democrat meddling and Obama’s FDA. But you’d still be paying though the nose.
One example suggested by the Newsmax article is the very popular Omega-3 fish oil supplement. A month supply today is probably $18.00, more likely less. GlaxoSmithKline already has an FDA approved Omega-3 product , but it starts at about $240.00 per month.
So the Democrat/Obama FDA move immediately topples the low cost competition and hands the market share to big Pharam, while pricing most working American’s out of the supplement market entirely. What was once readily available and competitive becomes an expensive closed market for the rich and well connected.
Democrats are the party of regular Americans? Not likely. Crony capitalism, corporate socialism, elite political class –you bet!
