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Something good coming from Trump

President Trump’s show of support for “Right to Try” laws is giving terminally ill patients new hope

This week Donald Trump said something that has many terminally ill patients applauding the president.

Meeting with pharmaceutical executives at the White House on Tuesday, Trump signaled that he would be pushing for some significant changes, including altering Food and Drug Administration regulations to allow smaller drug companies to compete with larger companies.

Related, here is what the president said that has given new hope to many suffering from terminal illnesses, as reported by the Boston Globe’s health-oriented website STAT: “Trump, in his opening remarks, also touched on two other issues: pushing companies to do more manufacturing in the United States and particularly focusing on getting drugs more quickly to patients with terminal illnesses. Congressional Republicans have introduced a so-called “right-to-try” bill and many experts in Washington believe Trump’s FDA could go along with such a proposal.”

“One thing that’s always disturbed me: They come up with a new drug for a patient who’s terminal, and the FDA says we can’t … approve the drug, because we don’t want to hurt the patient,” President Trump said on Tuesday. “But the patient is not going to live more than four weeks, [anyway]. So, we’re going to be changing a lot of the rules.”

http://rare.us/story/president-trumps-s ... -new-hope/

The FDA has been reviewing at notoriously glacial speeds for years (justifiably so in many cases) but I can't see the harm in this given a patients' limited time. I'm sure the attorneys will have these patients sign away all potential future claims against the company if things go badly, but I think it's a good first step.

My wife has supported this idea for years.
She has run clinical trials for years (Lyrica, Nicvax, some other crap I've never heard of).
One of the frustrations (of many) with the FDA is that there are many willing patients who will do anything to live a little bit longer or, better yet, be cured of whatever it is that ails them. Yet that's generally not a possibility for many drugs until the much latter stages of their approval (which takes years, and sometimes decades, for full approval).
Basically, they want to be guinea pigs.

Great idea!

Let's also include a Right to Die agenda item.

Trump keeps winning!

Mad props if he actually goes through with this.

There is zero reason for not letting terminally ill patients have access to experimental drugs.

It's good for both patients and medical science for this to happen. It will give more data on experimental drugs more quickly.

Pwns wrote:

Mad props if he actually goes through with this.

There is zero reason for not letting terminally ill patients have access to experimental drugs.

It's good for both patients and medical science for this to happen. It will give more data on experimental drugs more quickly.

Trumps not a lawyer...
Most politicians are lawyers and lawyers don't like this type of thing



We could use less lawyer type thinking in this country

He's got a big business- friendly streak which sometimes looks like libertarianism

I'm still betting he doubles the national debt in 4 years though

CID1990 wrote:He's got a big business- friendly streak which sometimes looks like libertarianism

I'm still betting he doubles the national debt in 4 years though

But not because he spends twice as much...
He'll double the national debt because
nobody making more than $10 million dollars a year will pay any taxes



I'm still not sure if it matters how you double the debt (Undecided)

Chizzang wrote:

CID1990 wrote:He's got a big business- friendly streak which sometimes looks like libertarianism

I'm still betting he doubles the national debt in 4 years though

But not because he spends twice as much...
He'll double the national debt because
nobody making more than $10 million dollars a year will pay any taxes



I'm still not sure if it matters how you double the debt (Undecided)

All those savings will increase tax revenue through increased growth and reinvestment in the economy.

The only thing holding us back is that pesky Democratic congress and Tip O'Neil.

kalm wrote:

Chizzang wrote:
But not because he spends twice as much...
He'll double the national debt because
nobody making more than $10 million dollars a year will pay any taxes



I'm still not sure if it matters how you double the debt (Undecided)

All those savings will increase tax revenue through increased growth and reinvestment in the economy.

The only thing holding us back is that pesky Democratic congress and Tip O'Neil.

Increase the volume and velocity of transactions and revenues will increase. Money never stays in one's pocket very long.

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote:
All those savings will increase tax revenue through increased growth and reinvestment in the economy.

The only thing holding us back is that pesky Democratic congress and Tip O'Neil.

Increase the volume and velocity of transactions and revenues will increase. Money never stays in one's pocket very long.

True.

And if we reduced the high end tax rates to 0 think of all the revenues that would create!