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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://stateofreform.com/news/industry/healthcare-providers/2015/06/ca-senate-committee-to-hear-right-to-try-bill/?cal">http://stateofreform.com/news/industry/healthcare-providers/2015/06/ca-senate-committee-to-hear-right-to-try-bill/?cal</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1 style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#222222'>CA: Senate committee to hear “Right to Try” bill<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=by-author><span style='font-size:9.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>By</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span></span><span class=author><span style='font-size:9.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="http://stateofreform.com/author/jon/" title="View all posts by Jon Brumbach"><span style='color:#999999'>Jon Brumbach</span></a></span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span></span><span class=posted-on><span style='font-size:9.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>,</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span></span><span class=author><span style='font-size:9.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="http://stateofreform.com/news/industry/healthcare-providers/2015/06/ca-senate-committee-to-hear-right-to-try-bill/" title="8:00 am"><span style='color:#999999'>June 12, 201</span><span style='color:#999999'>5</span></a></span></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373940'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373940'>SACRAMENTO — The Senate Health committee will consider legislation that would streamline access to experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373940'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#373940'><a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#0073AD;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>AB 159</span></a>, also known as the “Right to Try Act”, would allow manufacturers to provide, and physicians to prescribe, a drug, biological product, or device not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when the patient has a serious or immediate life-threatening condition. Insurance carriers would have the option to cover such treatments, but are not required to do so…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cool!  When I had a terminal family member I started a thread on this.  If we already know what will happen if they stay the course, and we have a willing patient, why not try some wacky theoretical medication or therapy?  Document carefully what was taken and what happened.  We create an online database of some sort, then let a million amateur dataminers try to find a pattern.  That way we shuffle off this mortal coil at least contributing something to humanity, even if it is just one more negative data point.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is easy to imagine a guy with only months to live (and good indications those months will suck) saying to his bride:  We should try something, anything.  Hell Mary, we know what happens if we do nothing…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>