Should Sick People Pay More to Risk Their Lives

This article is talking about people in hospitals are needing to pay for experimental medicine which may treat their illness better, or kill them. The topic was started after a drug was made for HIV patients. The recently made drug was offered to certain patients. The ethical issue was that the patients will be choosing between medicine that they know already works well enough, or potentially lethal medicine which may work better for their sickness.

Should people who need medicine for an illness, pay more for potentially lethal drugs which could work better?