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I was in a hurry- that was actually going to be C.

This is such a fiscally dangerous plan, and it will not end well, because the chemicals that are experimented with failed AND cost a ton to produce in the first place, which is why they didn't make the cut..

Furthermore, the FDA already has a program like this in place, but with drugs that had marginally more success in a narrower band of recipients, that is, the drugs worked, but not for everyone, and not enough to mass market.

But oh, boychick, bring on the Snake Oil days once again! https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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You want hard-to-produce? Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Hola, ameobas. Two things. One, pharma/biotechs can't charge for "right to try" or other versions of compassionate use. When those requests are honored, the drug is free. You can't charge for a drug until it's approved. Two, you'll notice I have a new Twitter handle and email. That's because Twitter messed up my old account and I had to create a new one. Follow me, email me, send me tacos.

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I've gotten so weary or wary of Republican legislation with these names that sound so compassionate or benign but mean the opposite (like "right to work" laws) that I inherently now expect the pernicious from any of their legislation.

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more likely to give you scrofula, if not the spirochetes

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there already is a doggie doo doo station in DC off Connecticut Ave, near the "Hinkley Hilton" (a friend of mine lived across from this traffic island where everyone seemed to take their dog to poop back in the early 90s.)

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they already do.

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or a right to try to be an American?

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heart disease and diabetes runs rampant in India and Americans of Indian origin and tumeric is an ingredient in much of their food.

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The pharma companies pay a "user fee" which has been used as a tool of coercion on the scientists to try to hurry up the approval process so it's not exactly free for them.

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I got a key chain from one of my employees that she bought from Disney World and labeled "#1 Boss" so it's true cuz Disney said so.

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IK,R? I was thinking that as far as the treatment for obesity (Sanofi had a cannabinoid receptor blocker (perhaps the one which gives us the munchies--how clever!) which almost was approved but there was an excess of suicidal ideation. People have tried a whole lot of snake oil for that, and the use of HCG drops or shots has led to blood clots.

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one that doesn't make your weener need Viagra?

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Drug companies often don't charge for "compassionate use," but they can if they want to (and for expensive treatments like biologics they sometimes do): see this FDA information site, for example: https://www.fda.gov/ForPati...

It says:

"The drug company may request authorization from FDA to charge you the direct costs of making the drug available, such as manufacturing and shipping, and indirect costs, such as reporting and IRB approval, or it may elect to cover the cost."

The new bill bypasses the FDA entirely, meaning, presumably, that a manufacturer will no longer have to get FDA approval to charge whatever they want to.

Most major drug companies may continue to provide drugs for free, but this bill also applies to some fringier elements of the health care industry, like Stanislaw Burzynski, who currently charges patients enormous clinic and medication fees to enroll in his Phase 2 trials and for compassionate use.

The right-to-try law doesn't really change much for big pharma. But for the Tijuana contingent, the quacks and vultures selling false hope to desperate people, it turns an IND approval into a license to print money.

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They should change the name to "right to work for less than minimum wage, with no paid vacation or benefits, and no right to a jury trial if you're fired." (Because large corporations are forcing employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements without a concommitant promise to only fire them for misconduct, gross negligence, etc.)

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Well if things go as well as I expect I may have to import to Australia.

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