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Fact Check of the Day: Trump Oversells New ‘Right to Try’ Law

on May 31, 2018

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President Trump claimed that a new law allowing access to experimental drugs would save “hundreds of thousands” of lives. But there is already a federal program in place, and similar state laws have had a minimal effect.

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