The idea that we can continue to simply defend and never have an offensive capability, I just think is ignoring this enormous threat, which we all agree.
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I think we need to establish what we have--I suspect we do have some significant offensive capability, but part of a--making it a deterrent is that it has to be made--it has to be made public.
But, it's urgent. That's the--and we just simply can't defend ourselves by saying, 'Well, it was complicated and we didn't get to it.'
We're the most wired country on Earth and that makes us the most vulnerable country on Earth.
I just think that this is a promising area with other nation-states.
You cannot defend, defend, defend, defend and never punch back.
We would never build a destroyer without guns.
U.S. political dysfunction they ranked as a higher threat to national security than a nuclear-armed Iran.
So there's still a severe problem in this area that makes us very vulnerable as a Nation?
It's very ironic that the USA Freedom Act was passed under the guise of increasing privacy protections for the American people.
It will be important that healthcare providers and patients have that same confidence in the safety and efficacy of FDA-approved biosimilars.
Every family in America is now paying about $15,000 per year for these Federal-only regulations.
The cost of regulations to the American economy is about $1.7 trillion per year.
We want a patient-centered system. That is our goal.
I'm going to suggest to my colleagues that we each have the opportunity for one final question before we adjourn this very interesting hearing.
What Senator Warner and I have done is said that we've created a reimbursement to Medicare doctors for care coordination for seniors with two or more chronic diseases.