(WASHINGTON POST)  Carolyn Johnson — The bill slated to land on the House floor on Thursday seems unassailable on its face – the 21st Century Cures legislation promises to modernize medicine and speed the development of lifesaving treatments. Its supporters include Republicans, Democrats, medical organizations, and families with desperately ill children whose future birthdays depend on drugs that haven’t yet been invented.

But a vocal chorus of physicians and pharmaceutical industry watchdogs warn that the bill is full of stealth provisions that could actually put sick people in harm’s way, by speeding the development of treatments that are neither safe nor effective.

It’s not exactly easy to oppose a widely-supported bipartisan bill that is often referred to as just “Cures.†But opponents say the proposed law is full of flaws, starting with its name and its key premise: that bottlenecks in the regulatory process are a big reason we haven’t cured cancer, Alzheimer’s, and a panoply of rare diseases.

Source: This bill promises to speed up drug approvals so much that it’s making people uncomfortable – The Washington Post