Court Rules Out Terminally Ill for Tests - washingtonpost.com

Court Rules Out Terminally Ill for Tests - washingtonpost.com:

"Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is approved, a federal appeals court said Tuesday. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned last year's decision by a smaller panel of the same court, which held that terminally ill patients may not be denied access to potentially lifesaving drugs."

Just thought I'd start gathering data points about access to treatment, as that seems to be brought up quite a lot in these discussions. My position is that these access issues will need to be carefully thought out and thoughtfully debated as we move to a single payer system.

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