[Jim091866]

Having just watched a few videos on youtube of patients in the Netherlands who are on the duodopa pump I am convinced that the FDA is violating my First Amendment constitutional rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They are preventing the approval of a medication which is KNOWN and PROVEN to greatly improve a patient's quality of life, thus dooming me to a life of relying on caregivers and the ever lessening and costly social support system. I can no longer provide for my family, no longer lead a productive/contributing life in society instead I am relegated to a wheelchair, needing assistance with even the most basic of tasks. I am thoroughly convinced this is nothing short of criminal. I assure you I am not psychotic, just ****** after watching these videos and having fallen three times yesterday and having to the ER twice in the last month for extreme rigidity, then for a bowel obstruction as a result of the levodopa.

Why can't the FDA "encourage" some company to get this treatment going? I will tell you why- good ole American capitalism. These other countries who have duodopa all have one thing in common-socialized medicine!

I welcome anyone to challenge these remarks, where am I missing something?