The 'Right to Try': Trump getting government out of the way

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]As you were talking, I was thinking about something that Trump did in his first administration. That's called the right to try. Are you familiar with that? This is for people who have >> Yes, I am. Yes. Yes.

[00:00:11]>> This is for for people who have terminal illness >> and they they can try experimental drugs as their choice. Yes. Right. And he didn't get enough credit for that. And for so long the federal government stood in the way of this uh being available on Medicare or Medicaid because these were not uh you know approved procedures by the FDA. You have to you would have to you would have to leave the country, >> right? Whatever the case may be, >> whatever the case may be, and go somewhere far you go somewhere far away where outside of outside of where legally you could have, you know, uh recourse if something went bad, right?

[00:00:45]>> So there there was a workaround around it, but it was very complicated, very expensive, very timeconuming and people may die during that process >> because you don't have time.

[00:00:53]>> So Trump looked at that and he said look >> uh these people are are desperate. They are on their last legs. How can how can we sit here and deny them the opportunity to try something that may it may not work.

[00:01:07]>> This is the same thing.

[00:01:08]>> Yeah. It may not work. It may save their lives. So, I'm going to get the federal government out of and this was not an affirmative step by the government. This was get the government getting out of this. sanding.