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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: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday June 01 2018, @03:02PM (2 children)
I do not agree. One can do a LOT more harm by trying something that is wrong than doing nothing. Which is why we have an FDA in the first place. Even then there were rules for making exceptions that were very liberally granted, and those rules were tweaked in the last five years to minimize the time required of a physician to get an exception.
"But they're terminal!"
Yep. And you can make the suffering of a terminal person worse than what it would have been. You can also give false hope, which is what Trump was blathering on about.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @05:49PM (1 child)
authoritarian scum.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @08:04PM
clueless idiot