How Many Families of Victims in Tainted Drug Scandal Still Embrace Romney's Deregulation Platform?

My husband and I sat at the breakfast table Saturday morning, calculating how many weeks it had been since he got a steroid shot for back pain.  My hands shook so badly, I had to put down my tea cup.  Okay, so it was mid-August.  That does place him in the date range in which the tainted steroid drug was being used.  I checked the Internet again and yes, the contaminated drugs had been distributed in Texas.  I clicked on a CDC link that listed the clinics where the tainted drug had been in use.  Relief.  My husband's health care facility was not on the list.

Like my husband, fourteen thousand people may have been exposed to the lethal fungus.  Fifteen have died thus far according to the Centers for Disease Control. What we're dealing with here is a tragedy,  whose boundaries we cannot yet measure.  But we should also see it as a  teachable moment.   The ex-pharmacy where the tainted drugs were produced did not fall under the regulatory authority of the federal government because they had successfully fought against it.  However, these compounding pharmacies are essentially mini-drug companies, who are able to charge less than real pharmaceutical companies because they are unregulated.  Ex-workers at the compounding pharmacy that produced these tainted drugs, described their working conditions: 

One pharmacist said she quit because she was worried that unqualified people were helping prepare dangerous narcotics for use by hospitals. A quality control technician said he tried to stop the production line when he noticed that some labels were missing, but was overruled by management. A salesman said he and his colleagues were brought into the sterile lab to help out with packaging and labeling during rush orders, something they were not trained for. 

Critics will say that it is inappropriate for me to bring up electoral politics at this tragic moment. However, decisions made by the Federal government can indeed prove deadly.  While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), enforces strict standards on pharmaceutical companies, compounding pharmacies do not have to register, because of Republican support for anti-regulatory measures and heavy lobbying on the part of the pharmacy industry.  In 2006, an FDA survey found problems with one-third of the drugs it sampled nationwide but has been unable to do anything about it because of the climate in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which sees such regulation as burdensome.

How many grieving families who have lost loved ones to  this tainted drug scandal had intended to vote a straight Party ticket with Mitt Romney, de-regulator par excellence, at the head?  How many still do?