Trump often invokes the Right to Try Act. Who wouldn't want to let people who are dying and desperate try something that might help? But the appealing name belies the law's critical shortcomings.
I’m unfamiliar with the details of these programs. I thought the point of right to try was if you were going to die anyway, being allowed to try an experimental treatment as long as you had exhausted all other options where as the existing program (assuming EAP) still prevented people accessing some experimental treatments?
Essentially what it comes down to is that the manufacturers don’t have to give you the experimental treatments. You can request them, but there’s nothing forcing them to comply with your request.
I’m unfamiliar with the details of these programs. I thought the point of right to try was if you were going to die anyway, being allowed to try an experimental treatment as long as you had exhausted all other options where as the existing program (assuming EAP) still prevented people accessing some experimental treatments?
Essentially what it comes down to is that the manufacturers don’t have to give you the experimental treatments. You can request them, but there’s nothing forcing them to comply with your request.
And with right to try now there is?
Nope! He essentially just changed the name to something more wholesome sounding. It’s apparently been a thing for decades.
How very trump of him