Thank you, Ms. Laughlin, and thank you, Mr. Fletcher.
If you don't mind, I would just like to ask a question as chair of the committee. There's one aspect I was just wondering about. When we're talking about drugs, I know that drugs for something like chemotherapy are very expensive; usually you're prescribed four, five, or six drugs, depending on the level of chemo. And sometimes those drugs don't work.
Have there been any answers as to who picks up the cost of those medicines that absolutely do not work? If you're experimenting, whether it's with cancer or another disease that is very dependent on the medication, has there been any examination of that in the medical world?
A doctor could prescribe a pill and really do the best he or she can in doing that, and they might spend a lot of money on that bottle of pills, but they might find out after you've taken one pill that, oops, we have to go to another one. Has there been any examination of that kind of predicament that patients get into?