Pharmaceutical Freedom Bill
The legislation makes it unlawful for the government to prohibit a doctor from prescribing an FDA approved therapy for off label use. The Bill was necessitated by the draconian actions of Governor John Bel Edwards, the CDC, and the Louisiana Department of Health in punishing medical providers who sought to prescribe effective, FDA approved off label therapeutics in the early treatment of COVID-19. Countless Louisianans died due to their inability to learn about, and access, off-label medications for treatment of Covid. Despite this dark history, Republican Senate President Paige Cortez (Lafayette Parish) did not call the Bill to a vote in the Senate for final passage, and so it died without a vote. Republican Cortez allowed the clock to run out without securing the passage of this vital legislation. Every conservative voter in Louisiana, particularly in Cortez’ Lafayette district, must be made aware of this, and Cortez’ should be retired from public service in Louisiana.
