Links are not comments. If you're unable to even try to summarize the content in a comment then you shouldn't expect other people to parse through it for a random online discussion. Either you care enough to actually participate in this discussion including making substantive comments or you don't. If you don't then don't get butt hurt at others because they call out your own laziness and refuse to make up for it.
Either you care enough to read my comment and link to comment back or you don’t. That’s called decency. Not my laziness to be quite honest with you. There’s now two comments and yet you still haven’t cared to respond about the original comment. Anyway here’s the last comment I’ll make.
This bill was written for ALS folks. It allows them to get access to safe drugs while clinical trials continue on efficacy. These provisioned drugs/illnesses like ALS, Cancer, etc provide dying people a chance to try things they would not be able to get, even through expanded access programs.
This has little to do with quacks entering the market or cynical capitalism. The drugs must demonstrate safety already and have some scientific evidence that they are on a “promising path” to efficacy while going through later phased trials.
We live in a day and age where much of our medicine is quite safe and goes through rigorous testing. But clinicians cannot get access to these drugs until they have been EUA or approved. This process takes many years to do and people suffering from these diseases have a right to try “unproven”, promising things.
Presumably, however, pharmaceutical companies striving to maximize shareholder value at all costs are allowed which is probably much worse in the end.