Posted on 10/12/2015 6:15:55 PM PDT by Nachum
Californians who are terminally ill will not be able to access drugs with the potential to save or prolong their lives as a result of Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of the Right to Try Act on Sunday.
AB 159, the California Right to Try Act, passed the state assembly and senate with overwhelming bipartisan support.
“It’s disappointing that Governor Brown couldn’t see the need to allow Californians the right to fight to save their own lives,” said Assemblyman Ian Calderon (D., Whittier), who sponsored the legislation. “Both Democrats and Republicans wanted this for our California’s terminally ill.”
In his veto message Brown wrote that “Patients with life-threatening conditions should be able to try experimental drugs, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s compassion use program allows this to happen.”
“Before authorizing an alternative state pathway, we should give this federal expedited process a chance to work,” Brown wrote.
However, the expedited process by the FDA has not yet been put in place.
“Time is the one thing our terminally ill don’t have,” said Calderon. “I wish he would have given terminally ill Californians the hope of having more time to spend with their families by allowing them expedited access to potentially life-saving drugs.”
Brown’s veto of the act was a disappointment to many, including one firefighter suffering from ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
“I am very disappointed in Governor Brown’s devastating veto of The Right to Try bill. This allows the FDA to retain control over my ability to save my own life while I still have time,” said Mike DeBartoli, a former Sacramento firefighter suffering from ALS.
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Today, he decrees what medical treatments elderly people can get?
Who is this guy? Does anyone in California know, or care?
Never mind, I know the answer to that one.
Moonbeam figures there’s not enough money for the illegals and these people...........so he he picked the illegals.
An excuse like when they can’t comment because of a continuing investigation.
He sure loves to play God.
Didn’t Moonbeam once came down with Prostate Cancer? How would he feel if he was denied treatment or medication to extend his life?
Election has Consequences Folks!
Bet he favors the right to die. Bet he favors abortion on demand. He just can’t bring himself to favor life, at least not when it isn’t at the mercy of the almighty, tortoisean (I know that’s not a word) government.
He and the Democrats want to kill off all American citizens and replace them with foreigners from third world ratholes. Civil wars have started for far less and it totally amazes me we aren’t seeing one right now.
I mean, what could go wrong with giving the GOVT the power over Rx, docs, hospitals....?
There are two Americas.
Such medications are not anyone
except criminal illegals and the EXEMPT who rule America.
Dawn of the death panel.
Hard to feel sorry for people free to leave that rathole and ‘freely’ choose to stay support it with their taxes.
When Jerry decrees that no one can leave and lines up Brownshirts at the border it will be too late. And that day is coming fast.
Gun control does the same thing.
Mommy Government knows best.
Obey Mommy subserviently.
Or Mommy will destroy you.
Brown is insane.
If you are an American, Moon Beam wants you dead. Americans are too tough for communists to try to control.
Moonbeam declares you are expendable and not deamed worthy of life savings medicines.
Is the Moonbeam Death Panel decision final?
“Didn’t Moonbeam once came down with Prostate Cancer?”
Yeah in 2012, and I hope it comes back!
“Didn’t Moonbeam once came down with Prostate Cancer?”
Yeah in 2012, and I hope it comes back!
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