# Dallas Buyers Club

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-locke/dallas-buyers-club>

**By** Jeffrey A. Singer, Kelly Wright, Landry Ayres

**Published:** June 22, 2022

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Drug approvals were not always as rapid as they were for COVID-19.

## SUMMARY:

In the wake of a worldwide pandemic, today we take a look back at another. Dallas Buyers Club, the 2013 historical drama featuring Oscar winning performances by Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey is a raw and intimate portrayal of mortality in the face of bureaucracy and greed. But how did a group of normal people operating an office out of a motel room stand up to the FDA and save lives? That’s what we’re getting into today.

### FURTHER READING:

[_Drug Reformation: End Government’s Power to Require Prescriptions,_](https://www.cato.org/white-paper/drug-reformation-end-governments-power-require-prescriptions) by Jeff Singer and Michael Cannon