So Purdue, Lily, Pfizer, and the German historical Bayer are of the US government?
Of course. And Epstein, Maxwell, you name it.
The US government is about power and influence, not chains of command and technical appointments and elections. You should have learned this by now.
50% of the Food and drug administrations funding comes from pharmaceutical companies. So yeah big pharma runs our government regulatory agencies.
Source please
That's because it's based on user fees. If you want a drug approved, you need to pay to have it reviewed.
Next you'll be telling me that car owners run the DMV.
If Ford and a few other large car manufacturers accounted for 50% of DMV funding you don’t think that could lead to conflicts of interest?
The pharma industry spends more money lobbying US politicians than any other, almost twice as much as the next largest spender; 64% of pharma lobbyists are former government employees