Trump is pushing to give terminally ill patients the 'right to try' experimental treatments but it could do more harm than good

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After a year in which President Donald Trump devoted much of his health policy attention to the repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act, Trump used part of his recent State of the Union address to press Congress to focus attention in 2018 on a new health priority — the passage of "right to try" legislation.

Right to try legislation gives terminally ill patients the right to use experimental medications that have not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In 2017, the US Senate unanimously passed HR 878, legislation that would do just that and the president's address has pressured the US House to follow suit, where a bill is now being debated in committee.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: What 'Dilly Dilly' means and how Bud Light came up with its viral campaignSee Also:Trump has a lot in common with Andrew Johnson, whose presidency failed spectacularlyA 2nd federal judge just blocked the Trump administration from ending DACAFunerals have begun for victims of the Florida high-school shootingSEE ALSO: Here's what really makes you right- or left-handed it's not just genetics

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