A government that now has a law or regulation regarding about every aspect of our lives has no clue about individual freedom or the concept of liberty. The collective under government experts is their model for us all.
Just wait until you see how long it takes to get test results under Obamacare.
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From CNN via Carpe Diem
A 24-year scandal was quietly acknowledged last week. On July 3 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first “rapid home” test for HIV—a test that people can take in the privacy of their own homes to determine whether they have the virus that causes AIDS.The approval is an unambiguously good thing—or so you would think. The saliva test in question, made by OraSure Technologies and known as OraQuick, costs less than $60 and takes just 20 minutes to self-administer. According to statistics an FDA advisory committee presented at a hearing in May, it holds the potential to prevent the transmission of more than 4,000 new HIV infections in its first year of use alone. That would be about 8 percent of the roughly 50,000 new infections we currently see annually in the United States. (About 1.2 million people in the U.S. are now living with HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of whom about 20 percent don’t realize they have it. Since the epidemic began in the early 1980s, about 1.1 million people have been diagnosed with AIDS, and more than 619,000 have died from it.)The scandal is that the approval of a rapid home test for HIV did not occur until last week—about 24 years after the FDA received its first application seeking permission to market one.
Apparently, for years, even decades, only tests of clinical options were allowed to proceed, basically because the government considers Americans to be infants:
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