Good news! The right to try e.g. new medications or medical treatments should be expanded beyond terminally ill patients! It is understandable that terminal ill patients were the first group for which to introduce this new right, but other patients deserve it too!
"Nearly 10 years ago, a tidal wave of patient-centric healthcare reform began to sweep America when Colorado became the first state to enact the Right to Try, a groundbreaking Goldwater Institute law that allowed terminally ill patients to seek potentially lifesaving treatments without begging the federal government for permission. Goldwater would go on to enact Right to Try in 40 more states and, in 2018, at the federal level. Now, a new wave of reform has begun as Nevada today became the second state to adopt Goldwater’s Right to Try for Individualized Treatments, which extends the Right to Try to cutting-edge, highly specialized treatments that are tailor-made for each individual. ..."
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