That story tells what needs to be told and what we are trying to accomplish here, and that is save lives. He was fortunate. He could afford to go to Italy and have the surgery and pay for it, but most Americans do not have that luxury.
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If they see a system that's uncertain due to lack of certainty that these products will be procured, they're going to put their money elsewhere.
I think that people need to understand that when one has given 24 years of one's life to public service, that doesn't mean that they owe the next 24 years of their lives.
I think it makes all of the sense in the world to eliminate that level of bureaucracy, put the contracting back at BARDA where it belongs.
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