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.
We could have answered this with definitive basic clinical research early. They didn't.
Opening statement.
What scientists are telling us is that there is a reasonable chance that, God forbid, that a pandemic as deadly as COVID...
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 spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth.
How does it happen that we pay by far the highest prices of any major country for prescription drugs?
85 million Americans are uninsured and underinsured.
We are losing about 60,000 people a year unnecessarily because they can't afford the medicine they need.
What has that done for us? How many lives were saved during the COVID pandemic because of investments by PAHPA or BARDA?
One out of four patients who receive a prescription from their doctor are unable to afford to fill that prescription.
We dealt with the worst public health crisis in 100 years.
Senator Sanders' Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act as an 'open-source dividend.'
