[maxerickson]

"Stodgy gatekeeper" and "nothing" are not the only regulatory regimes available.

Like you could have looser requirements to enter the market and then penalize/ban companies/people that make bad/unsafe tests. (yes, I'm proposing that people involved in marketing useless medical tests be banned from doing it a second time. Might be hard to structure it, but the goal is clear enough).

[jngreenlee]

I would like this, especially for tests (I understand being more restrictive for treatment but still disagree with the winner take all corpratism that results under current regime)

[ineedasername]

I don't see all that much "winner take all" in the medical industry. There are multiple competitors for many/most products, evidenced in this situation by many companies racing to develop & compete against each other for better testing. A few weeks ago there were news stories about rapid testing w/ 1 day turn around. Now we're down to fractions of an hour.