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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Senate Republicans on Wednesday passed legislation that would enable patients to force hospitals into administering drugs for off-label use if the hospital’s own physicians refuse.
The legislation comes after a COVID-19 pandemic when conservatives came to believe that drugs like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, neither of which have been proven to benefit COVID-19 patients, would cure, treat or prevent their infections. It also comes amid a resurgence in anti-vaccination attitudes within the Republican Party.
For instance, one woman who testified in support of the bill lost a lawsuit in 2021 seeking to force University of Cincinnati hospitalsinto administering ivermectin to her unvaccinated husband, since deceased. Several medical groups and doctors, including one who treated the man and declined to provide him ivermectin, testified in opposition.
The Senate-passed version of House Bill 73 is significantly more moderate than its early iterations. The bill requires hospital pharmacists to dispense a prescribed drug for off-label use during a public health emergency. However, it creates exceptions if the pharmacist has moral, ethical, religious, or science-backed objections, or if the patient has a history of allergies or other contraindications.
But if the hospital is “unwilling” to administer that drug, they must grant admitting privileges to credentialed physicians who will.
The original version of the bill prohibits hospitals outright from denying patients their prescribed medicines. The legislation now returns to the House, which must agree to Senate changes to get the bill to the governor’s desk by the end of the year, when all legislation must start anew with new lawmakers.
www.cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Senate Republicans on Wednesday passed legislation that would enable patients to force hospitals into administering drugs for off-label use if the hospital’s own physicians refuse.
The legislation comes after a COVID-19 pandemic when conservatives came to believe that drugs like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, neither of which have been proven to benefit COVID-19 patients, would cure, treat or prevent their infections. It also comes amid a resurgence in anti-vaccination attitudes within the Republican Party.
For instance, one woman who testified in support of the bill lost a lawsuit in 2021 seeking to force University of Cincinnati hospitalsinto administering ivermectin to her unvaccinated husband, since deceased. Several medical groups and doctors, including one who treated the man and declined to provide him ivermectin, testified in opposition.
The Senate-passed version of House Bill 73 is significantly more moderate than its early iterations. The bill requires hospital pharmacists to dispense a prescribed drug for off-label use during a public health emergency. However, it creates exceptions if the pharmacist has moral, ethical, religious, or science-backed objections, or if the patient has a history of allergies or other contraindications.
But if the hospital is “unwilling” to administer that drug, they must grant admitting privileges to credentialed physicians who will.
The original version of the bill prohibits hospitals outright from denying patients their prescribed medicines. The legislation now returns to the House, which must agree to Senate changes to get the bill to the governor’s desk by the end of the year, when all legislation must start anew with new lawmakers.
Bill forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other requested treatments nears finish line
Bill would force hospitals to give out drugs like ivermectin requested by patients.
www.cleveland.com
