Posted on 05/30/2018 10:20:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump is slated to sign the controversial "right-to-try" bill on Wednesday, which would bypass drug regulators to give gravely ill patients access to experimental medicines.
The legislation allows patients with life-threatening conditions to ask drugmakers for medicines that have cleared some testing but still haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Previously, people would need to ask the FDA for access to experimental treatments.
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had been major supporters of passing the measure, which supporters say gives patients hope they would not otherwise have. The House of Representatives approved the bill last week, which is the same version the Senate passed in August.
It allows certain patients to ask drugmakers for medicines that have passed Phase 1 of the FDA approval process but haven't been approved yet and are still undergoing testing. Patients must have exhausted other options and be unable to participate in a clinical trial.
Critics say the legislation undermines the FDA's authority to regulate drugs and could leave patients vulnerable to medicines that might not work or even be harmful. The agency already runs an "expanded access" program where seriously ill patients can apply to access experimental treatments.
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WINNING!!!
It was beautiful seeing those brave people surrounding our President today..I read that not ONE Democrat voted for this bill, not ONE..disgusting isn’t it..they claim to be the party that cares about the folks right, just not the dying ones..they cost too much being alive don’t ya know.
Bravo!
Great!
Good journalism, including mention of an opposing viewpoint.
Wouldn't it be great if that happened occasionally with Democrat initiatives as well?
Look at the large number of drugs that DO get FDA approval and then have to be taken back off the market when horrible side effects happen.
Seems to me they aren’t doing such a hot job.
This is by far one of the most important medical laws he could sign.
bill vote against by all but a handful of Dems in the House ... more important to them to “resist” than to help dying citizens ... their vote on that bill shows their TRUE colors ...
They lack compassion?
RE: Good journalism, including mention of an opposing viewpoint.
Some questions come up for me... what kind of treatment is allowed to be tried? if the answer is anything, then, you leave the desperate patient vulnerable to hoaxes out there ( and potentially beneficial cures as well ).
On the other hand, if the principle is LIBERTY ( i.e., Freedom to live and take risks as you see fit ), then this bill is totally compatible and in the spirit of the constitution.
Democrats OPPOSED this freedom-granting law. We need to remind voters of that this fall
Well remember what Bernie Sanders said, after age 70 its better to just die already, cheaper so that young people can get health care..old people just bleed money from the system according to Commies
What you said!
It is inconceivable to me how a rational person could oppose this bill. This is exactly the thing to trumpet, (or Trumpet?) as it totally breaks the Democrat narrative. Each Dem should be asked repeatedly why they voted against it.
Truly winning
if women have a ‘right to decide what to do with their own bodies’ in order to ‘save their lives due to ‘dangerous pregnancies’- then why don’t dying patients have a right to try everything possible to try to save their lives?
RE: Well remember what Bernie Sanders said, after age 70 its better to just die already, cheaper so that young people can get health care
Will Bernie be willing to follow his own suggestion?
RE: if women have a ‘right to decide what to do with their own bodies’ in order to ‘save their lives due to ‘dangerous pregnancies’- then why don’t dying patients have a right to try everything possible to try to save their lives?
Good rhetorical question. And note — one is trying to END a life and the other is trying to SAVE lives.
they always scream for the big bad govt to "do something"...
so now the govt does something and CNBC has to put a negative spin on it...
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