These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and
other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may
cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion
caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential
amendments to the Affordable Care Act or
other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may
cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over
other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or
other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may
cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and
other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
They think the President would be relegated instead to some sort of «prioritization» process, where he directs those limited funds available to him to making certain that the country honors its outstanding bond obligations — the most unambiguous focus, they contend, of Section 4 of the 14th
Amendment — and to funding
other absolutely essential functions while allowing most
other obligations (salaries, entitlements, contracts, etc.) temporarily to go by the wayside, though this would obviously
cause enormous pain and upheaval throughout the country.
An event can be disbanded if it
causes violence or unreasonable disruption, but if
others engage in violence in response to a demonstration, that does not invalidate your First
Amendment rights («The police must permit the speech and control the crowd; there is no heckler's veto», Cox v. Louisiana 379 U.S. 536).