Opinion: ‘Right-to-try’ laws provide little access to investigational drugs. We created a process that does
Compassion for people who are dying is ethically commendable. Duping them with ideologically driven #righttotry laws that provide no help is not.
‘Right-to-try’ legislation has been around at the state level in the U.S. since late 2014. It became a federal law one year ago when, with typical ballyhoo and hype, President Trump signed Senate Bill 204 into law on May 30, 2018.
As he signed the bill, the president said that “… countless American lives will ultimately be saved. We will be saving — I don’t even want to say thousands because I think it’s going to be much more — thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands, we’re going to be saving tremendous numbers of lives.”
That hasn’t happened. The number of patients who have benefited from state or federal right-to-try laws can currently be measured
