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If you are signed up at the White House's website you get daily emails which tell you, without media filters, what the day's schedule is and the status of various bills, speeches, trips, etc. In today's email it mentioned Trump would be signing the Right to Try Act at 12:15 ET today. I assume the White House youtube channel will cover it and/or Fox News.
This is another common sense idea that I find hard to believe no other president has supported.
Right to Try? Or Right to be Exploited Before You Die?
They say “something is wrong” because “fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent of terminal patients can take advantage of the FDA’s compassionate use exception.” NOT TRUE.
Experimental drugs are just that: not proven to work or to be safe. Patients can die sooner and in agony from experimental drugs, especially those that have only gone through tiny, preliminary studies of a few healthy volunteers or patients (as the proposed national law would allow).
Only about 15% of the drugs that complete those types of preliminary studies are eventually proven to be safe or effective. The other 85% are either not safe, not effective, or both. That is a very important reason why most patients (and their doctors) do not seek experimental treatments even when they know they can.
Yep, this bill is a boondoggle for the pharma companies. They can collect those massive fees for questionable medicines that maybe give a cancer patient a few more weeks of life, at an exorbitant cost, and with no accountability as to the effectiveness or the quality of life they provide. And if your insurance company denies coverage, which they are likely to do with such expensive, unproven drugs, then it will be the patient's family that will be left with huge bills they probably cannot pay.
Gee, what a great win for patients. More like a great win for the drug companies, cutting the FDA out of the loop so they can do as they please.
One of the cornerstones of Universal Healthcare is the MD comprised Comparitive- Effectiveness Panel. These panels evaluate the cost, side effects/ quality of life and outcomes of new medication versus standard applications.
The US does not have Universal Healthcare. Comparitive- Effectiveness is left to healthcare providers. Sloan Kettering independently created their own Comparative- Effectiveness models for Cancer treatment with emphasis on cost- benefits. Not all Cancer Treatment operations do the same.
US Healthcare providers who administer pharmaceutical treatment in their own facilities are paid a percentage of the cost of the medication by Medicare. The higher the price of the medication, the more the facility makes.
Nope, this has nothing to do with drug pricing and expensive medication. This applies to experimental drugs that are literally priceless, you cannot go and buy them outside of a clinical trial or expanded access/compassionate use program.
It has to do with how many more people a drug company will charge. Currently they want to limit people for trials who have the best chance. This is because they want good clinical results. Now, with this hope they can sell to someone who is beyond hope because it will not affect their trial stats.
It has to do with how many more people a drug company will charge. Currently they want to limit people for trials who have the best chance. This is because they want good clinical results. Now, with this hope they can sell to someone who is beyond hope because it will not affect their trial stats.
What I posted earlier bears repeating in this context (link in my original post, page 1):
"The legislation pushed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) would forbid the federal government from interfering with the state laws and would exempt doctors and drug companies from liability for prescribing or providing experimental drugs. It also would limit the FDA in an unprecedented way: If a patient were injured or killed by an unapproved treatment under a right-to-try law, agency officials would not be allowed to use the information to delay or block approval of the treatment."
What I posted earlier bears repeating in this context (link in my original post, page 1):
"The legislation pushed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) would forbid the federal government from interfering with the state laws and would exempt doctors and drug companies from liability for prescribing or providing experimental drugs. It also would limit the FDA in an unprecedented way: If a patient were injured or killed by an unapproved treatment under a right-to-try law, agency officials would not be allowed to use the information to delay or block approval of the treatment."
And? Thats not a bad thing to be honest. The trials that are being performed to determine if a drug is approved or not are very very carefully designed. And I assure you that the manufacturers will be looking at those deaths carefully, because while it cannot be used to delay or block the release of the drug, it could absolutely be used in a wrongful death lawsuit after release of the drug.
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Wow..a whole lot of words that offer nothing in the way of facts or stats...
No actual coherent comment on the issue the poster you were responding to said about healthcare and prescription drug prices?
These are the kind of liberals jacka**es on here these days - what would you like for a fact - my pink slip, receipts for my unemployment checks -
Liberals only response is to ask for proof when they are presented other opinions and called out. Best to think up some new lines..
The poster was not addressing the issue either - but do you call him out no. Ignore list for you - I'd given you a 2nd chance - but you won't get a 3rd.
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More like a great win for the drug companies, cutting the FDA out of the loop so they can do as they please.
