Ed Markey

Thank you. Ms. Miller, you are the chair of the Antimicrobials Working Group, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries coalition on this issue.

As temperatures warm, insects, animals now migrate to other parts of the planet that otherwise they would never have moved.

Beautiful. Thank you.

These breakthroughs have all come because of that incredible entrepreneurial activity.

We share a lot of organisms that we have challenges with, and we also share a lot of the same needs for diagnostics.

Antibiotics, as Senator Markey said at the open, are curative, lifesaving drugs.

There is a bit of a red tape, but our organization works tirelessly to make sure that hospitals are aware of the new--the latest therapies.

What is stopping them from using the most innovative antibiotics that they have decided would be best for their patients?

Okay, great. Thank you. And there is no silver bullet.

Thank you. Dr. Boucher, you are treating patients in Boston every single day. You are seeing how bad the opioid crisis has become.

Good morning. The Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, will come to order.

Each witness here told us loud and clear, if we do not address antimicrobial resistance, we will face a growing health care threat to our Country.

I think that is a great idea. And we need to have somebody who is in charge to be applying the pressure that all of the families in our Country feel on this issue.

We need to find a way in which we incentivize the development of new solutions to this problem, and we need a healthy planet that doesn't facilitate the spread of these deadly diseases.

I second the PASTEUR Act before this Congress as well.

Thank you. Ms. Miller, you are the chair of the Antimicrobials Working Group, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries coalition on this issue.

Thank you. Dr. Boucher, you are treating patients in Boston every single day. You are seeing how bad the opioid crisis has become.

You are saying that the Administration should appoint, name a champion.

Again, let's talk about that.

Antibiotics, as Senator Markey said at the open, are curative, lifesaving drugs.

We need a health care system that puts people first, providers to have all the tools readily available to treat patients with the best medications available.

We need to see reforms in reimbursement. We need to see pull incentives like the PASTEUR Act be put in place.

A person has a spotlight to continue to keep this issue front and center.

Again, wicked is such a Massachusetts, Boston word as well, so it is bad.

As temperatures warm, insects, animals now migrate to other parts of the planet that otherwise they would never have moved.