Should every patient in Georgia have the right to join a clinical trial for the most promising treatments?

Help bring pragmatic trials, shared results, and more treatment options to patients in Georgia.

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Should patients have the right to join a for a promising treatment through their physician?

Pragmatic trials compare treatments during routine care. Participation remains voluntary and requires informed consent and appropriate safety oversight.

What Georgia has today

Legal here since 2018

Right to Try has been federal law in Georgia since 2018. It lets some patients ask manufacturers for experimental treatments—but it built no clinics, pays no providers, and publishes no results.

Federal Right to Try Act

1 million neighbors

About 1 million of Georgia's 11 million people live with a rare disease—and 95% of the roughly 7,000 rare diseases have no approved treatment to try.

GAO rare disease report

The missing half

Montana licensed experimental treatment centers with SB 535. Right to Trial adds the evidence half—pragmatic trials, provider payment, and published results. Georgia can adopt both at once.

Read the model act

Patient estimate: Georgia's share of the roughly 30 million Americans with a rare disease (GAO 2025), using Census 2025 population estimates.

Who is still waiting in Georgia

Today's medicine manages these conditions. It cures none of them.

Diabetes~1.3 million people
Chronic kidney disease~1.2 million people
Rare diseases~1 million people
COPD~390,000 people
Alzheimer's disease~250,000 people

Estimates: national counts scaled to Georgia's share of the US population (Census 2025). Each condition links to its national source.

Georgia Right to Trial