Real medical freedom will require something greater than replacing the public health establishment: ending the FDA's monopoly.
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The public health establishment lost America's trust during the COVID-19 pandemic with its bureaucratic incompetence, "noble lies," and authoritarian mandates. 
It was about time. Agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been failing the American public for decades. But the agency with the worst track record is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which, long before COVID, caused Americans to lose hundreds of thousands of life years by slowing down drug development. After COVID, the American public had finally started to catch on.
President Donald Trump put a new team in charge of the federal health apparatus, some of them truth-telling contrarians who risked their careers to expose the sins of the old guard. But it's also a messy picture because the man in charge of Health and Human Services has controversial theories about the dangers of vaccination with little factual basis.
So where does that leave things? Is the public health apparatus finally being upended? Or are the inmates running the asylum?
Nobody, no matter their integrity or political persuasion, should have the power to decide what you or I put in our bodies. The only way to fix America's regulatory health care apparatus is to dismantle it. A new guard has replaced the old. The COVID reckoning is here. But it hasn't gone far enough.
Producer: Zach Weissmueller
Video editor: John Osterhoudt
Graphics: Lex Villena