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Trump signs 'right to try' drug bill
President Trump signed a bill Wednesday allowing terminally ill patients access to experimental medical treatments not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dubbed "right to try," the law's passage was a major priority of Trump and Vice President Pence, as well as congressional Republicans.
"Thousands of terminally ill Americans will finally have hope, and the fighting chance, and I think it's going to better than a chance, that they will be cured, they will be helped, and be able to be with their families for a long time, or maybe just for a longer time," Trump said at a bill signing ceremony at the White House, surrounded by terminally ill patients and their families.
Trump thanked lawmakers sitting in the audience who sponsored the bill, including Sen. Joe Donnelly, a vulnerable Democrat up for reelection in Indiana.
Also at CNN.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 01 2018, @03:02PM
The first line of Jmorris' reply is apt here. I read medical brochures, the warnings, etc. I read them sometimes before I became a parent. When my little boys were due for inoculations, I started reading those things diligently. I was involved, and felt that I really needed to be informed. That has carried over into my more mature years. Doc wants to give me oxycodone? I've read that a few times - and I've turned it down a couple times. "Hell, Doc, I'm not really hurting. I'll just get some aspirin, or tylenol, or something." I've still got a bottle of etodolac, I guess it's a generic for Lodine. Shit makes me sick, so I didn't take them. Of course, the warnings actually warned about that. Take 'em on a full stomach, or suffer the consequences. Problem was, soon after I took the pill, I had an empty stomach again. I read.
I understand what you are saying about sneaky "contracts", but we also have a judiciary system that has ruled against those iron clad contracts sometimes.
Granted, this isn't the best of times in America's history to challenge unjust contracts, but it has happened, and it will happen again. You've noticed all the activists, up in arms against Farcebook, and others? The pendulum swings in both directions, and Trump isn't going to stop is swinging. Slow it down a little, if he really tries, but he ain't stopping it.