Worth noting: the tv ads promoting "Right to Try" are funded by Americans for Prosperity,

[Atticus]

a Koch influence group.

[lunasun]

1. Monkey urine injections if you want it I guess

Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) said if faced with a terminal illness, he’d “take any risk, including injecting monkey urine, if that meant I could spend a few more days, months or years with my children.”

The legislation has powerful backers.

President Trump has urged Congress to pass the bill, notably in his State of the Union address in late January. Vice President Pence is a staunch supporter of right to try, signing a version of the bill into law when he was governor of Indiana. And groups backed by conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch have also been pushing for its passage.

[Va Lefty]

2. What do the Kochs get out of this?

[flamin lib]

3. I'm conflicted on this issue.

One one hand if someone is terminally ill and options are limited why not, with full disclosure and patient's informed consent, allow experimental treatment. It *could* add to the body of knowledge given if it didn't prove curative.

On the other hand the idea of human experimentation and the very real possibility of exploiting desperation in a sick and dying patient, and their family, should be repugnant to every human being.

How would anyone choose and who would you trust to be fully forthcoming and without personal interest?

Like I said, I'm conflicted.

[Atticus]

4. I totally understand. That iswhy I simply said "Worth noting". A brief Google search

turns up the Kochs' ties to Big Pharma, but that proves nothing. Just because of who they are, I doubt that they are backing this for humanitarian purposes.

So, 100 fatally ill people voluntarily try experimental drugs. 99 die, 50 sooner than expected, but there is NO LEGAL LIABILITY---they "volunteered". The 100th patient lives, proving the efficacy of a new, exorbitantly expensive drug. Money,money,money.