Government Kills

Though Dallas Buyers Club was largely non-political, the story revealed a libertarian bent. Woodroof initially told the doctors at Mercy that the recreational drugs he used were none of their business, and to a federal regulator killing the dying through its obnoxious efforts to limit the ability of people to save their own lives, Woodroof railed “Screw the FDA.” Woodroof knew of what he spoke.

Indeed, as Vass made plain to him, the AZT permitted by a witless FDA was going to kill the small number of patients ‘lucky’ enough to be victimized by a federal bureaucracy totally unequal to a disease it didn’t understand. Government kills even when it’s not trying to.