Congress should avoid the false narrative that insufficient Federal findings were to blame for our pathetic COVID response.
We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth.
We are losing about 60,000 people a year unnecessarily because they can't afford the medicine they need.
We could have answered this with definitive basic clinical research early. They didn't.
One out of four patients who receive a prescription from their doctor are unable to afford to fill that prescription.
What has that done for us? How many lives were saved during the COVID pandemic because of investments by PAHPA or BARDA?
What is the morality, and I want all three of you to respond to it, of us having a product that cost a few dollars to pr...
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Our job is to make sure that we are prepared if it does occur.
Do we all understand that the best drug in the world is meaningless if somebody can't afford it?