The fact that other countries made the same mistake does not excuse the bad policy choices that the Administration put in place.

History will never forget that we allowed this to happen, and, for us here in the United States, that we in fact enabled this ongoing atrocity.

We lost over 1 million people from COVID.

We did not have the infrastructure we needed to deal with the pandemic.

We were very, very unprepared for what hit us 3 years ago.

Our job is to make sure that we are prepared if it does occur.

85 million Americans are uninsured and underinsured.

Do we all understand that the best drug in the world is meaningless if somebody can't afford it?

What is the morality, and I want all three of you to respond to it, of us having a product that cost a few dollars to produce but not making it available to people around the world who are dying?

We are losing about 60,000 people a year unnecessarily because they can't afford the medicine they need.

Senator Sanders' Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act as an 'open-source dividend.'

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth.

We could have answered this with definitive basic clinical research early. They didn't.

85 million Americans are uninsured and underinsured.

What has that done for us? How many lives were saved during the COVID pandemic because of investments by PAHPA or BARDA?

What scientists are telling us is that there is a reasonable chance that, God forbid, that a pandemic as deadly as COVID could occur in 10 years.

One out of four patients who receive a prescription from their doctor are unable to afford to fill that prescription.

Congress should avoid the false narrative that insufficient Federal findings were to blame for our pathetic COVID response.