Not sure how this intersects with the author's reality. It is sad to see article after article spewing nothing but hatred towards Trump --almost purely from an ideological perspective-- when something like this could help so many.
This, in more ways than one, demonstrates how difficult of a problem this is. When people's lives become game pieces in political battles, the people lose and politicians, well, use them to score points towards their own career objectives.
I read in a comment that the author lives in NY, where, apparently, Right to Try isn't available. If find this interesting when a federal law has been in place since 2018.
This is one of the things that can be perplexing about the US system of government. Here we have a state preventing people from having access to treatments that could materially affect their illness when federal laws allow it.
While I do understand the many advantages of the independence granted to states by the US constitution, sometimes it feels like the US has devolved into a fifty regions pretending to be united as a nation when they are actually not and, as a result, end-up conspiring to damage the very societies they claim to protect.
Education is another example of this. All nations with excellent systems of education (and the results to prove it) have national-level planning, management and standards. In the US, not only is our system of education fragmented at the State level. Our schools are run by fucking unions organized as districts, each with their own axe to grind. It is no surprise the results are what they are.
We somehow manage to extend some of this "excellence" (sarcasm) into every level of healthcare.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309195/
Not sure how this intersects with the author's reality. It is sad to see article after article spewing nothing but hatred towards Trump --almost purely from an ideological perspective-- when something like this could help so many.
This, in more ways than one, demonstrates how difficult of a problem this is. When people's lives become game pieces in political battles, the people lose and politicians, well, use them to score points towards their own career objectives.
I read in a comment that the author lives in NY, where, apparently, Right to Try isn't available. If find this interesting when a federal law has been in place since 2018.
This is one of the things that can be perplexing about the US system of government. Here we have a state preventing people from having access to treatments that could materially affect their illness when federal laws allow it.
While I do understand the many advantages of the independence granted to states by the US constitution, sometimes it feels like the US has devolved into a fifty regions pretending to be united as a nation when they are actually not and, as a result, end-up conspiring to damage the very societies they claim to protect.
Education is another example of this. All nations with excellent systems of education (and the results to prove it) have national-level planning, management and standards. In the US, not only is our system of education fragmented at the State level. Our schools are run by fucking unions organized as districts, each with their own axe to grind. It is no surprise the results are what they are.
We somehow manage to extend some of this "excellence" (sarcasm) into every level of healthcare.