By Richard Jaffe, Esq.

For almost 40 years, terminal patients have been trying to obtain access to
unapproved new drugs. The latest effort has come from the Goldwater
Institute (�GI�) which has made the strategic decision to bypass Congress
and the federal courts and go directly to the state legislatures. GI�s
legislative efforts have been wildly successful, having passed its �right
to try� law in more than half of the states. That�s an almost unbelievable
accomplishment and everyone should laud and support it, but it won�t do
much, practically, until Congress is forced to act, and act in a big way.
Before I go into why the state legislative angle won�t do the job, let�s
review how we got to where we aren�t, namely open access to pipeline (and
other) drugs for very sick people who can�t be helped by FDA approved
drugs.

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