"It shows that everyday people, no matter your age or your identity, can make changes."
"So the public invested to develop the drug. The public invested and funded the trials for FDA approval."
"the existence of these programs happen because of the public, and also we pay when the HIV epidemic gets spread as well."
"Why is it $8 in Australia?"
"we the public, we the people developed this drug, we paid for this drug, we led and developed all of the grounding patents to create PrEP, and then that patent has been privatized."
"This isn't about you, and I am not here to vilify the work that you have done."
"I blame this body because every single developed country in the world guarantees health care as a right except us..."
"What Amy says, what Ms. Vilela says is this is a commodity. Her daughter's life was not."
"How can our system allow a company to take a drug treatment that was developed with taxpayer funds and abuse this monopoly to charge such astronomical prices?"
"We want the prices to come down. We want truth."
"This treatment is available in other countries for much, much less. In Australia, patients pay less than $7 a pill."
"Finally, let me note that this is a bipartisan issue. HIV has no boundaries."