The FDA Commissioner Gets Political

Robert Califf’s job is safety and efficacy, not drug prices.

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The Food and Drug Administration works best when it stays out of the political fray, but Commissioner Robert Califf hasn’t learned that lesson. Last week he joined the partisans piling on drug makers for charging allegedly excessive prices.

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