House to vote on ‘right to try’ bill next week

Published May 17, 2018 1:00pm ET



The House will vote next week on the Right to Try Act, which would give terminally ill patients access to possibly life-saving experimental medicine.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., made the announcement Thursday morning, which comes nearly two months after the House passed a different version of right to try, but could not get it through the Senate. The Senate unanimously passed its version of the bill in August. That version was introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and is the one the House is now poised to vote on.

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