but you have no choice but to accept them as the entity whose recommendations you follow with regard to drugs
What features are included in a car is regulated by competing companies and you can pick which set of choices you deal with.
The competition between companies and the choices that you have imposes a discipline that does not exist with government.
With the government, you are simply coerced to accept their judgements. Which are influenced in all sorts of ways by the drug companies.
And if something becomes glaringly obviously wrong with something the government is doing, fear not. In a decade or two, someone will get around to changing it.