re: Trump to Big Pharma - "We are going to end Global Free-Loading" - BOOM!

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I would imagine they would rather start profiting from the medicine sooner, but that does not mean they have the incentive to kill people. They aren't mutually exclusive.

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Correct. But when a drug hasn't been approved, the pricing structure is radically altered. And for life-saving treatments, the pharma companies can charge whatever they want to desperate patients and families without efficacy data or even an idea of efficacy data.

I agree our lifestyles and our diets are a core part of the problem -- which is why I'm huge on altering the medical industry entirely. More focus on holistic and natural approaches, a 1,000% increase in focus on nutrition.

But the industrial complexes that control every aspect of society prevent that while enabling all the bad shite.

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You should just admit you were talking out of your rear. You obviously don't know of any roadblocks.

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There are times when you seem like a knowledgeable guy.
There are other times when you seem to lose your mind.

Since you claim knowledge in this area though, walk us through the unobstructed process by which a patient would gain access to a research pharmaceutical outside of bounds of its research protocol. Be sure to include issues involving FDA position statements, procurement, institutional formularies, local protocols, perceived and actual legal ramifications, and timeframe.

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Zero documented patients have received access to life-saving treatments as a result of the legislation.

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That should speak volumes.

Is the intimation there are no terminal cases within those 31 states who are in need of such intervention?

If not, why has there been no access?

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Since you claim knowledge in this area though, walk us through the unobstructed process by which a patient would gain access to a research pharmaceutical outside of bounds of its research protocol. Be sure to include issues involving FDA position statements, procurement, institutional formularies, local protocols, perceived and actual legal ramifications, and timeframe.

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All good questions. None of them outside of the first one is affected by a Federal "right to try" piece of the puzzle.

From 2010 to 2014, 5,995 requests to the FDA out of 6,028 were approved access to experimental meds.

The process of approval from a physician perspective has been cut to 60 minutes.

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We're going to be ending global free loading. Foreign price controls reduce the resources of American drug companies to finance drug and R&D innovation. I think you people know that very well. Very unfair to this country.

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I agree with this. Americans pay higher prices for drugs bc we don't have the price controls other countries have and someone has to fund R&D.

Hopefully, streamlining the approval process reduces costs to pharma companies to make up some of that cost. I'm wary of too much change in the approval process, though.

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Is the intimation there are no terminal cases within those 31 states who are in need of such intervention? If not, why has there been no access?

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Because 1) most drugs for dying patients simply prolong life (at best) and 2) if they haven't been approved through all phases of FDA testing, they usually don't "work" at even doing that.

You're welcome.