Moo its biden versus trump trump stock, trump stock. Both of which are going in surprising directions. If you you thought the election is over, the president is trying to do an end run around the results and fighting tooth to nail today the dow lost 222 point [ screaming the s p 500 declined points at 8 . Nasdaq dipped 2. 2 hey. I know it didnt feel like it was so bad but if you were in the nasdaq except for a couple of names, wow. They crushed it. Why dont we start there with next weeks game olympian . On monday morning we are coming in and, sadly, im betting we pass the 200,000 mark. Thats right 200 thousa,000 thousand cases an the virus is hurting business. If not monday, tuesday, wednesday, a question of when, not if i know there is a sense that we have had a big vshaped recovery which is terrific. But our inability to stop the spread is putting a crimp on business orders and retail sales. Just yesterday, work day, reported a solid quarter we have the coceos on the show but they me
Thank you very much for that question. I absolutely believe, we as an organization believe it is an important incentive. It puts a spotlight on research and children. It they risks it at a certain level because there is an incentive and that becomes a very important issue as Companies Look across their portfolios and decide where to make investments to battlers la health of the nation. That in my mind is a big deal. How it could be made better, right now is it is provisional or temporary trial. It could be a stronger statement if it was permanent. We the people want to invest and make incentives and opportunities for research with children. While i have the money there is one of the eighth thing i would like to comment, particularly impressed with the comment about the voice of the patient. And i think as do many of my colleagues within shire and across the industry, though rare disease world, is hugely informative. Often times patients and organizations who represent them know more ab
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Hope for all. The initiator of this whole program is the chairman of our energy and commerce committee, and i am very pleased to ask our distinguished chairman, chairman upton am a from michigan, for any remarks he would like to make, and then i would like to thank him for taking time. Mr. Chairman . Thank you, mr. Chairman. It is truly a bipartisan effort. We formally unveiled it this past spring, and it will be bipartisan every step of the way. Century Cures Initiative is, in fact, going to save lives. It is going to impact every family, not only in this country but perhaps around the world. It is going to keep our country the leader in innovations and accelerate the display recycle the delivery cycle. There are 7000 known diseases, but we only have treatments for about 500 of them, and that is just unacceptable. We can, and we must do better, and we will. Kindnitiatives have this of direct impact on american lives, or, as we think about our family members and Close Friends who have
The investment. So to attract those we have to make sure that those investors have confidence that if this is a good product it will be approved in a timely fashion and that it will be reimbursed in a reasonable fashion and if you look at i hate to do this but if you look at the case which cures hepatitis c, no more liver transplants, it will save American Society enormous numbers of dollars. Its going to cost to pay for that drug but in the long run it is because of successes like that that investors will say yes lets put more money into this enterprise. I think this idea has multiple layers of benefit to health care and the development of new medance. We had a truly net worked electoralcal medical records in the u. S. , it would also be a network for Health Care Providers to find patients similar to their own in terms of demographics to stage of disease to collaborate in terms of treatment and health care and finding out what has worked, what hasnt worked and u how can that be done i