STAT August 2, 2024
As Donald Trump seeks a second presidential term, front and center among the achievements he’s touting is the federal Right to Try law he signed in 2018. It was intended to let people who are terminally ill try experimental treatments when there were no approved options and they couldn’t participate in clinical trials. Over the six years of its existence, the law has not lived up to that promise.
During the Republican National Convention, Trump called Right to Try “a big deal.” He claimed it helps terminally ill patients “use our new space-age drugs,” suggested the law is “saving thousands and thousands of lives,” and indicated it was an accomplishment others had failed to achieve for more than half a...
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