should dying people have the right to obtain unapproved drugs that are potentially lifesaving?

Question

According to the Supreme Court decision, it denies test drugs to dying patients. In what ways does this event affect the government???

Answer 1

since monsanto made enough money (to buy all
the FDA dems/reps no matter) with illegal drugs,
used in silent experiments even unapproved, it just
shows the bigotry of the ruling filth class and their tokens
who were cheated into office by incompetent sycophants.

what's the difference to opium given in so many wars,
when somebody was severly injured ?? does it heal ?
nope. it merely was a final, DUE mercy for somebody
having no dice anymore. has always been a courtesy.

unapproved drugs - oh gimme a break, anyway used since
half a century CONTINUOUSLY on UNKNOWING people
by the american governement - go read the cia world facts.
(secret projects will be made public after some decades too)

but they couldn't maintain the nazi experiments openly right ?
and there was always something to fear, communism, black
civil rights - WHATEVER was contemporarily convenient for
the selfish moles undermining the true american spirit ...

so they keep imprisoning people as main social engagement
- in jail they can offer bonuses for participating in 'medicine'.

but if you dare to decide for yourself, those anti-americans sulk.

Answer 2

Yes to your question. It's the drug firms and the government agencies that don't want this to take place.
Case and point, when a patient is on life support and is dying, the family and doctor know that there is no possible way for the patient to recover because of the problems they are confronted with, state or government agencies steps in to stop any actions by the family or doctor. When you see what takes place now when you have to be in the hospital and they want to discharge you as fast as possible, it's hard to understand what are they really looking at. Ask any new mother how long they spent in the hospital after giving birth to a baby.
I want to see life maintained at all expense when it is known and possible to do so for the patent's welfare/recovery, and is known that a drug or equipment will help. Keep the drug firms and government agencies out of the patients well being, leave that up to the doctor and families. No one unless they have gone thur it knows how hard it is to do anything between the doctors and the patients families with someone telling you what you have to do.

Answer 3

1. I believe that any drugs even unapproved drugs should be administered to a dying person. They may actually prove to save or extend with quality that person's life.
2. The government doesn't like to sanction unapproved drugs until many years of test are accumulated. This avoids any law suits that may face the manufacturer or the government itself for allowing same drugs to be used in the event they may be deadly.

Answer 4

I could easily argue both ways. dying people have nothing to lose, and are desperate therefore pharmacuetical co. can prey on that. On the other hand who better to test then someone who is going to die anyways, besides different side affects and such. In ways it affects the govt', it gets more power by deciding which drugs can be administered.

Answer 5

First, you must recognize the fatal assumption in this question - that unapproved drugs are safe and effective. They are unapproved because they have not yet (and may never be) been shown safe and effective! Most drugs never reach the marketplace because they fail in safety or efficacy testing.

Answer 6

You need to be more concerned about the profit margins of the pharmaceutical companies than the lives of a few unfit terminally ill malcontents. Your compassion for the ill and weak is alarming and unamerican. Really, the public health or personal rights are not important to a government only concerned with property.

Answer 7

Absolutely, this could reduce the cost and time required to bring new drugs to market. A friend of mine who runs a cancer center has told me that the average cost of bringing anti-cancer drugs (chemo drugs, etc.) to market is appx. 1 BILLION dollars, I was absolutely floored, so anything we can do to reduce this I am all for.

Answer 8

One more proof the gov't wants to control us!