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for any amount of money.
And what that voucher is, is a front of the line pass.
So he can go sell it to some drug company that has a fat loss drug or a drug for heart medications, anything.
He can sell it to them and they get to buy it for what, $50 million.
So now Tom has $50 million for his pediatric drug that's going to save children's lives.
And this drug company has a voucher that takes them to the front of the line.
Now, do we wish that these drug companies were altruistic and they were just like,
Creating drugs for peds, of course, but they're not.
It's not a free market.
So what happens is they've now got their voucher.
Tom has his money to create his drug.
And since 2012, the Give Kids a Chance Act has created over 60 drugs for life-threatening illnesses for children.
And because of Elon's tweet, that legislation, because it has to be voted on every four years, was taken off the end of the bill.
So that legislation, it's not in existence anymore.
That is terrible because now there's no incentives for the drug companies to create drugs for children.
And children are already underfunded.