I really think the FDA approval system is backwards, especially for a terminal disease like Alzheimer's that we have no good treatment for. In my view we should encourage people to try whatever with a minimum of regulation and approval and then approve the best options for Medicare.
I imagine companies pitching (and discounting) any idea they can come up with and patients signing up for the best deals. As soon as someone starts to show something promising they get tax payer money and become locked in as the cure.
I just don't see any reason not to go balls to the wall on experimentation when you are treating the dying elderly. My grandfather died with some type of dementia. If I were in charge of his care I would have taken any experimental treatment over just letting him die with medical care that didn't have a chance of saving him. Better to take 1% chance of cure and 99% death than 100% chance of death.
I imagine companies pitching (and discounting) any idea they can come up with and patients signing up for the best deals. As soon as someone starts to show something promising they get tax payer money and become locked in as the cure.
I just don't see any reason not to go balls to the wall on experimentation when you are treating the dying elderly. My grandfather died with some type of dementia. If I were in charge of his care I would have taken any experimental treatment over just letting him die with medical care that didn't have a chance of saving him. Better to take 1% chance of cure and 99% death than 100% chance of death.