fauci, this goes back to an earlier caller. guest: this is an issue we have to keep working at, to get a good balance between what is charged for life-saving medications such as hiv-aids medication and the investment that companies need to put in. from where i come from, we aren't a company, we just do the research that tries to get the cures and the intervention of the caller has a good point. there are some medications, the prices of which are really, extraordinarily -- you have to scratch your head and say, how could he possibly have a medication that cost that amount money? to comment on vaccines, relatively speaking, bang for the buck you get from vaccines, they are among the whole spectrum of interventions, vaccines are relatively inexpensive for the effect you get. some of the drugs for certain procedures are rather expensive, and that's unfortunate, and you try to get the right balance between the investment that companies make and what they are charging. homeland security secretary was asked to comment about the threat