The issue with the medical system is similar to the issue with prisons: It has no person that is motivated to care about it. If you are an inmate, or a patient you're just happy once you're out, and don't want to spend more of the time to fix. And if you're a free or healthy person, why devote time to something that will likely not concern you? (It might some day, but few people are reflecting enough to realize this.…
You can easily walk away from the article thinking clinical trials were a way to get cures to the public without having to go through all that messy trial stuff, and it's infuriatingly broken. It's not. It's people who are lucky to have time and energy to pursue long shots through a system that's not designed as a health care market.