Reforming Our Nation’s Health Agencies in the Aftermath of COVID-19 | Scott Gottlieb, MD

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD returns to look at the systemic problems within the CDC and how we might fix them. He describes how the agency’s bureaucratic glut, mission creep, and lack of transparency contributed to the disastrous COVID-19 response and America’s loss of trust in its public health institutions. Later in the episode we turn focus to the FDA and reforming its approval process for innovative drugs and technologies, and end with a conversation about drug pricing reforms.

Scott Gottlieb, MD, is the author of "Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic." He is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2017 to 2019 he served as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Gottlieb is also a special partner with the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates and serves on the boards of Pfizer, Illumina, Aetion, and Tempus. Follow him on Twitter at @ScottGottliebMD.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are created.
0:04.0	Because I remember Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.0	Welcome back folks.
0:25.0	Today I want to talk about our public health institutions.
0:29.0	There's some concerning data out there that indicates that people have lost a lot of trust.
0:35.0	In institutions like our CDC or FDA, public health officials in general.
0:40.0	And that's largely due to COVID.
0:42.0	Largely due to a number of reasons I don't want to get into today.
0:46.0	Like of transparency.
0:48.0	Pushing of narratives that were clearly questionable or at least debatable.
0:53.0	But I think public health officials acted like they were, you know, acted with 100% certainty,
0:58.0	especially regarding COVID.
1:00.0	Maybe it was therapeutics, maybe it was vaccines.
1:03.0	Maybe it was the nature of the risk, whatever it was.
1:06.0	And of course more recently, what's made a lot of headlines is the COVID origins.
1:11.0	And then the report that came out that.
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