Katee Sackhoff
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He's talking about how this bill was just like bloated.
They took a bunch of shit off of it.
One of the things that fell on that was in 2012, there was a piece of legislation called the Give Kids a Chance Act.
What it did was it motivated and incentivized drug companies to create drugs for pediatrics.
Because right now, pediatrics are completely underfunded.
We learned all of this when our daughter got sick.
The National Cancer Institute, 4% of its budget goes to pediatrics.
So it's already underfunded.
And then when Elon in 2025 tweeted about this, they took off all of the stuff at the end of the bill, 900 pages.
But what was on it was the Give Kids a Chance Act.
Now, this bill is a voucher program.
Tom in his basement wants to create a drug, a new drug for neuroblastoma that will save our daughter's life.
He's got no money, but he sees the cure.
So he can go to the FDA and he can say, I got a cure for neuroblastoma.
And they say, great, we're going to fast track you in the FDA, but we're also going to give you a voucher.
You can sell that voucher because Tom only got, he only has 10 cents.
He can't create this drug.
But with that voucher, he can take that voucher and he can sell it to anyone.