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Adults understand that life is about risk management. Even if all 700 deaths are attributable to the drug (highly unlikely) many people will take that risk to avoid living with Parkinson's/psychosis.

One can be too cautious or not cautious enough. The FDA is far too cautious, to the extent that current estimates are that the FDA regulations have resulted in as many avoidable deaths as two Nazi Holocausts: http://www.ruwart.com/FDA/prot...

Not every disease can be neatly solved and not every precaution is warranted. For America, deadly government-imposed regulations are a worse evil than patient choice (hopefully made with their physician) both by the philosophy and by the statistics. It shouldn't be surprising in the light of the Socialist Calculation Problem (from an information theory perspective) that freedom works better than being "managed" like livestock.

What makes you think libertarians don't want clean water? That's just ignorant.

Here's one example of a libertarian response: http://www.ruwart.com/environ2...

Basically it involves having private property rights to water, and suing people who damage your property.

Chapter six of Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart.

Let the poor get even poorer education, let the poorest be locked out of education entirely, let the rich monopolize the best resources, let the wealth gap grow even more obscenely.

That's an extremely narrow-minded assumption of what competition in education would do. The government currently has a monopoly on education; how is this different than a corporation having a monopoly? Because the government can be "supervised" by "the public"? Puh-lease.

I suggest you read Chapter 10 of Healing Our World .

Competition would breed various forms of education, creating niches where there currently are none. (If the government is giving away education--even if it's crappy--there's no incentive for profit-based solutions.) In the absence of government-provided education, free alternative methods such as television-based, commercial-financed education would be available to anyone with a TV. Who knows what else a free market in education would produce; information is increasingly getting cheaper due to the advances in technology and the growth of the Internet further driving down the costs of potential alternative education services and methods.

The worst thing about government-provided education is its one-size-fits-all approach. It's a pity that the government mandates what can be taught and how it can be taught; I and many others I know barely graduated because government schooling simply wasn't the best method for us.

From Dr. Ruwart:

"Actually, such [socialist] systems only "seem" to work. Thousands of Canadians cross the U.S. border each year to pay for heart surgery and other treatments. The "free" health care in their native land is available only after months, sometimes years of waiting, even if you die before your number is called.

In Britain and over 55, you'll probably be denied expensive treatments such as kidney dialysis. It's sad enough to watch loved ones die when a disease is incurable, but it's much worse to watch them die just because the line is too long.

The secret to lowering health care costs is to do away with the excessive regulation which drives up prices by 70-90% with no added benefit. "

You can read more about this in her book posted online:
http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap5.html
http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap6.html

From Dr. Ruwart:

"Actually, such [socialist] systems only "seem" to work. Thousands of Canadians cross the U.S. border each year to pay for heart surgery and other treatments. The "free" health care in their native land is available only after months, sometimes years of waiting, even if you die before your number is called.

In Britain and over 55, you'll probably be denied expensive treatments such as kidney dialysis. It's sad enough to watch loved ones die when a disease is incurable, but it's much worse to watch them die just because the line is too long.

The secret to lowering health care costs is to do away with the excessive regulation which drives up prices by 70-90% with no added benefit. "

You can read more about this in her book posted online:
http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap5.html
http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/chap6.html

For an introduction to libertarianism for Green/left people, check out Mary Ruwart's book "Healing Our World". There is a more recent edition, but you can browse the previous edition online for free. She demonstrates how libertarianism's principles of non-agression and a free market can help the poor more than our nation's current policies that only help the rich get richer.