William H. Frist

Typically, in the United States an individual company will set prices in such a way to cover research. They will look at supply, demand, and the efficacy and efficiency with which the goal of cure or prevention is carried out. In order for…

I know of no more heartbreaking tragedy in the world today than the loss of so many young people to a virus that could be stopped if we simply provided more resources. The Helms-Frist amendment provides those resources, focusing on…

The amendment in the underlying bill, not your amendment or mine, as the Senator pointed out earlier, is $100 million. As I understand it, the amendment of the Senator would take that up to a total of $500 million. Our amendment will take…

We initially filed, as the Senator knows, $500 million, which is a sum that I think is appropriate in terms of addressing the issues, having them in the field very shortly.

Obviously, I cannot be in the Senate to introduce our amendment to add $500 million to the fight against HIV. On matters relating to global disease, your demonstrable leadership in the Senate and in Africa has made us more aware of the…

I concur with Senator Kennedy's remarks regarding this standard as it applies to the food safety provisions in this bill. As 21 C.F.R. 7.41 regarding health hazard evaluation makes clear, the FDA evaluation will take into account a list of…

I believe all human cloning for scientific reasons, for ethical reasons, and for reasons surrounding the health and safety of women should be banned. This whole subject of human cloning was the subject of a lot of discussion earlier this…

Please state what your amendment does. Clearly, you can sue your employer. The McCain-Edwards-Kennedy bill says you can sue the employer. How do you fix this? We clearly have to fix it. The trial lawyer makes 40 cents on the dollar and, in…

We have to make it clear because again and again during this debate the statement is being made that what the Kennedy bill does in terms of employers is exactly what the Texas law does. But with what the Senator from Texas has just gone…

It is clear that this whole issue of suing employers is critically important. In debates, again and again we hear that the Kennedy bill does not allow employers to be sued. Yet if you read their bill, there are all these pages and pages of…

This is the Texas law. I want to make it clear, because the answer to my first question was that there are not five or six pages of exceptions in Texas law.

We want to expand access to these clinical trials as much as is reasonable. In addition, access to clinical trials is critically important from a societal standpoint, because without an adequate number of people participating in clinical…

But is the Senator aware that there is not one HMO, to the best of the sponsors' knowledge, that has endorsed our bill, or insurance company, and is the Senator aware that over 362,000 physicians from 70 different organizations have…

Can you name one insurance company or one HMO that has endorsed the Frist-Breaux-Jeffords bill?

My great fear is, if this amendment passes, let's say we put $22 billion in, you have destroyed the accountability, the heart and soul of this bill, the opportunity to give that seventh grader the opportunity to have the diagnosis made of…

First, the Senator from Minnesota just said he thinks we will rue the day we decided to assess the students. My assumption was that he feels all students should not be tested, that we already know what the problem is. I thought that was…

I had intended to introduce an amendment to modify the taxation of so-called ``special needs trusts'' for disabled persons. The problem that cries out for change was first brought to my attention by a Tennessee constituent who has been…

I also commend the Senator from Delaware. About 3 years ago, I guess it was, as Governor, he was one of the instrumental driving forces in a bill called Ed-Flex, where it, in a bipartisan way, was brought to the Senate and passed…

It is time for the world to wake up. We are confronted today with the worst international health crisis in 600 years: the international scourge of HIV/AIDS; 8,000 people died today, 15,000 new infections today. In Africa, the life…

Emergency room provisions are a good case in point. It comes up all the time. It is important that people have the right to go to emergency rooms. Emergency room provisions are important. The Senator is exactly right. For the 51 million…

It is important to view this amendment in the greater context of the current humanitarian situation in southern Sudan. The situation is dire, to say the least: the famine of last year took the lives of hundreds of thousands as flights of…

The Ed-Flex bill is a simple bill, a straightforward bill, and a bipartisan bill. It was brought to the Senate floor last week in order to pass it through the Senate, have it pass through the House of Representatives, have it sent to the…

The great thing about this whole debate is that whether it is his intentions or my intentions or the intentions of the Senator from Oregon, it really is to address the fundamental issues of education, of really making sure that our…

I have not seen the core requirements. I didn't hear what the core requirements are specifically. But if you would allow us to proceed to the bill at some point, at the appropriate time--right now, as you know, we have given the Senator…

I was not aware actually of that and the particular situation there in King Cove with regard to the satellite technology, but it really aims at a very important point, and that is, the premise of any telemedicine must start with reliable…