Scott Gottlieb: “I found that most plans excluded 6 or 7 of the 12 top drugs that you use to treat the disease.”

I think the reality is, sometimes we have to accept no for an answer, that there just is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Herd immunity is achieved at 93 to 95%. We're well below that in most parts of the country.

I think the downside of this mandate in terms of hardening positions and taking something that was subtly political and making it overtly political could outweigh any of the benefits that we hope to achieve.

The bottom line is if you look at pediatric vaccinations where we have mandates in place, vaccines are a requirement to go to school.