The drug costs patients 129,000. The same cost for patients in other countries about a third of that amount. I realize the pharmaceutical Companies Invest their researches, they bring a new drug to market, they should profit from that innovation, but why are the u. S. Patients getti getting gauged for drugs. Can you better explain why u. S. Taxpayers are paying for Biomedical Research at the front end and paying exorbitant prices at the back end . Ill just say that 50 of my colleagues and myself sent a letter to you and secretary burwell requesting that they write when taxpair funded research leads to patent product not available to the public on reasonable terms . What are reasonable terms . A drug shouldnt cost 129,000 for people to get access to it. I know this is a topic of great interest, and while it should be and my heart goes out as all of us do to patients who are in need of a therapeutic which is outside of their financial means to be able to gain access to. That ought to be
Have an obligation and a mandate given to us by the citizens of this country to go on course, to put those reforms in place, to get the country back on track. Thats something i can control. Thats something i can be involved in. Thats something i can help deliver. Thats what im focused on. Thank you very much. Whos your final four pick . [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] House Minority nancy pelosi held her briefing at the capitol. She discussed several issues including the 2017 budget, the zika virus and the flint, michigan, water contamination water issue. This is about 20 minutes. Ms. Pelosi i see some wearing green here. Good morning. What a week, huh . Yesterday, president obama presented his nomination for the next justice of the Supreme Court, judge Merrick Garland. Hes a widely respected jurist who embodies wisdom, judgm
Recall all right. Goods morning. Welcome to the march 24th 2016 rules comeet i am katie. To my right is [inaudible] were joined today by supervisor to my left. Our clerk is eric erches and we want to thank jen lowe and jesse larsen. Mr. Clerk. Do you have any thing to say is this. Please silence all cell phones. Items acted on today will appear on the april 5th board supervisors agenda. Can we call item one. Motion approving the direction of stephen [inaudible] for the Fire Commission january 5th ending 2020. Do you have any comments . I do. Thank you supervisor tang. I call this hearing today because the board of supervisors has a role to play. The San Francisco Fire Department is over 300 million entity and one of the largest departments and up with of the most important departments to Public Safety in the city and county of San Francisco. When the mayor a ports commissioner, directors, commissioners or board of appeals, entertainment, police or utilities commissioners, the board of
Agency and support. Or triggers is one of the indicated in attendance. When a student is 10 , that student will be red flagged and well alert the other agencies. We are not using it yet. We are still meeting. This has been years and years in meeting but we are on the homestretch and well address that soon. Let me press on this one a little bit now. The homestretch is around the block . I dont know. Your guess is as good as mine. What are the barriers at this point . Is there something we can do from this seat . I really dont know. Its language. Im sitting here and i have heard similar discussions years ago and im, you know, you are frustrated, im frustrated. Frustration by itself doesnt do anything. What is it that we need to get this moving. We cant be sitting around and having more kids fail. We need to share with the Community Members and they need to be doing their part in this. Its really frustrating to me that we are not there yet. Supervisor yee, i agree that frustration goes no
Guest it would be information on threats and risks, basically on threat signatures, potential attackers that would help a company if it chose to do so defend itself better. Its not going to be privacy data. Well, thats the hope. Probably not. But its a good first step, and i think if you talk to some of the sponsors, they would tell you, you know, we know its just a first step, we know we have to do more, but we can get agreement on this, and it builds consensus on the hill to bring forward on cybersecurity. Host well, lets bring in tim starks of politico who covers cybersecurity for that organization to. Hi, jim. You mentioned there was the real deal waiting in congress. What would that look like . What are Things Congress hasnt done it should be doing once they finish this bill, even if they dont finish this bill . Guest they have to think about dhs, its authorities, what are its roles. Dhs has this grand mission to defend the nations cyberspace, but they have neither authorities or