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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @02:45AM (3 children)
> Even if it causes you pain, you can just kill yourself.
Can you though? I'm pretty sure that Republicans are against euthanasia, and consider even bringing it up as something that needs to be illegal. Remember "death panels"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @02:58AM
I am pretty sure the spyocrats hold england up as an example of that not happening. http://observer.com/2017/05/chris-gard-connie-yates-baby-charlie-mitochondrial-depletion-syndrome/ [observer.com]
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday June 01 2018, @03:05AM (1 child)
When there's just you it's not a panel, it's an individual choice. MAGA!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @10:38AM
It'll have to be you shooting yourself in the head with a gun you hid behind your hospital pillow, because a doctor mentioning or discussing that option *was* the entire "death panel". Try again, dipshit.