i understand the f.d.a.'ponsibility, but if you have a massive possible pandemic, we had better have a way to subvert the regular order for the needs of the whole and move rapidly. just like bart's comments earlier. i hope there is a process in place. and if there's not one -- i'm former military, and after training exercise, you do an after-action review. will that be done? >> what i can say is we have actually had several in-process reviews already, and we are committed to after action reviews as part of our routine procedures. >> i would add to that, and i would add there are processes in place through emergency use organizations, that we would be able to shift to other products under the emergency use authorization. >> if something hit that we don't know about, and we are looking at this time line, then i guess we just identify it and then isolate people until we can roll something out? >> absolutely. there are several mitigation steps, and one of the things we did this summer was update guidance. so no a

i want to give the american people the freedom to be able to access f.d.a.-approved drugs and the legislation i will introduce with my colleagues has the most substantial safety provisions, including batch lots and pedigrees on these drugs, that will make the entire drug supply much, much, much safer than it is now. now, mr. president, price increases in 2009. a story this week described what's happening by the pharmaceutical industry in pricings drugs. interesting ... an arthritis drug, enbrel, increased 12% this year. nexium frr ulcers increased 7% this year. lipitor, up 5% this year. asthma, singulair is up 12% in year. plavix, price increase 8% in year. that's an antico[^agulant. osteopour row circumstance if you're taking boniva, an 18% increase this year. what's the deal? does anybody understand what the reason nor this is? these kinds of unbelievable price increases? and so i'm going to offer this amendment with my colleagues, and my hope -- my expectation -- is you want to say at the end of the day that you've really done something to address the iss

i appreciate the opportunity to be here today to describe f.d.a.'s activities in this response. st when this influenza virus emerged in the spring, we said this can't be business and usual, and we immediately stood up an incident command system spobs with several teams in anti-virals and vaccines. this allowed us to mount a flexible response with our partners inside and out of government. our vaccine team acted immediately along with c.d.c. to begin the steps to produce a voinls even before there was a decision or knowledge that we were going to need one. as you that we were going to need one. as you heard in record time vaccine was produced and became available and i can assure you everyone of this effort government and industry has done everything possible to get as much vaccine to as many as possible without cutting corners and note this committee is concerned that a vaccine is safe. it's very important perspective here is that the entire world is struggling with biology of this virus, the challenge of reduced manufacturing yield and frankly the entire world's struggling with

the life expectancy was about 45 then and people live a lot longer partly because of medicare and social security and minimum wage and safe drinking water laws and clean air laws and f.d.a that keeps our foods supply relatively safe. those were government and partnership with people, business and labor and it made us a better country. i defend to the death the constitution does allow and encourage us to do things like this healthcare bill. >> host: a twitter comment about if we are worried about healthcare cost, revoke president bush's tax cuts. >> that is one thing i support. i voted against the tax cut. the tax cut is over whelmingly for the wealthy. one thing in president obama's stimulus package, a third of the money immediately, within a couple months, went to tax cuts for the millel class. 80% got tax cuts under the plan we voted on in february, and that money went directly to middle class, not the wealthy. those are the kind of tax cuts we should do, not load up people who have done so well, including insurance executives. the ceo of aetna made his salary for denying coverage for pre-existing condition and all the things they do. >> constituent from dayton, ohio.