My hope on behalf of this vaccine-injured generation is for action.

I got interested in using telehealth sometime ago for a variety of different things.

The earlier you get to these kids and provide them with supportive services, interventions by trained people that know what they're doing, that they really do get over a lot of these problems.

A lot of times, kids with autism, they don't act up or anything when they're in the doctor's office, but then, when you get home, they do.

How would you feel, as a parent, if you had access, in your own home, with your child, 24/7, so that anything that happens, in terms of behavioral problems, that you would have access, ready access, to trained specialists who you would be…

Yes, how do people afford to do this?

If you go--probably if--I don't know, if you went to a hospital or someplace, there would probably be some reimbursement for that, I don't know.

I believe in vaccines, I think they're one of the greatest public health achievements that we've ever had.

Who does this? Who is charged with the responsibility of coming up with standards that have to be met so we don't have people out there that don't know what they're doing, trying to treat people?

Do you really want to ask parents to put their children at risk for those illnesses for which we could lose herd immunity?

What do we know works for treating autism--we talked about this applied behavior therapy, seems to be successful. But, how early an age can you start that?

More than 30 years ago, Senator Kennedy championed the Medical Device Amendments, a bill that gave the Food and Drug Administration long-overdue authority to regulate medical devices.

Do I want safe products? Absolutely. For me, the question is who decides.

I must also say, regardless of the difference between drugs and devices, we're getting new drugs on the market all the time, and they are not preempted from tort claims.

The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will come to order for this hearing on protecting patients from defective medical devices.

Senator Kennedy, as he did 30 years ago, is fighting to ensure that consumers are safe.

This bill is really about real people who have been let down--let down, sometimes catastrophically.

It was inevitable that something like this would happen.