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

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

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

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

How about firing power for incompetence, or both?

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

The promise of virus hunters that they could use this information to predict future pandemic was a fallacy.

85 million Americans are uninsured and underinsured.

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.

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

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

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

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

The promise of virus hunters that they could use this information to predict future pandemic was a fallacy.

We dealt with the worst public health crisis in 100 years.

85 million Americans are uninsured and underinsured.

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