We did not have the infrastructure we needed to deal with the pandemic.
85 million Americans are uninsured and underinsured.
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 lost over 1 million people from COVID.
Do we all understand that the best drug in the world is meaningless if somebody can't afford it?
What scientists are telling us is that there is a reasonable chance that, God forbid, that a pandemic as deadly as COVID...
How about firing power for incompetence, or both?
We were very, very unprepared for what hit us 3 years ago.
Congress should avoid the false narrative that insufficient Federal findings were to blame for our pathetic COVID respon...
Our job is to make sure that we are prepared if it does occur.
We could have answered this with definitive basic clinical research early. They didn't.
What has that done for us? How many lives were saved during the COVID pandemic because of investments by PAHPA or BARDA?
