Paul Herendeen
Analyst · JPMorgan
I do, but I want to chime in on the gross net on XIFAXAN because there's -- as financial analyst and I know each one on the phones is financial analyst. It's important, I mean, remember that back in -- when we reported our Q1, we talked about a pretty substantial improvement in gross to net from better pricing in that nonretail channel, Joe just referenced, which is growing quite nicely. We're going to lap that. So that had been kind of a step function, it had been a nice tailwind for us in Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, for the full year. We're going to lap that, and it's a good thing. I mean, it's all good, but I think, looking ahead to 2019 via '18, Joe said exactly right. It's like we expect something on a unit basis and high single digits and price whatever gross selling price increase we take, we don't obviously expect to net that and realize all of that, but the 2 drivers next year will be -- next year versus '18 will be volume and whatever we can net out of price increases that we take. With respect to the question around how do we expect to deploy our cash flow, Joe finished up with a slide that said, we have a $1 billion to be used for debt and/or bolt-on acquisitions. I mean, this is -- our priority is to reduce that debt. Now that said, it's not a priority where you say when you have a great opportunity that we think is value generative and helpful to all stakeholders. We're going to pursue that, and I think the best example of that is the ongoing situation with Synergy, whereas Joe reported in his remarks, we put in a stocking horse bid. It's $200 million. It's $200 million. If we were successful at that level, I'm not suggesting that's how that will sort out, but if we're successful at that level that $1 billion, $200 million of it would definitely be allocated to business development, and there are other smaller items that throughout the year, we would expect to pursue to continue to add to our R&D portfolios or to our marketed portfolios for each one of our core and important business. So it's a very difficult question because in the absence of something value generative, we're going to reduce our debt. That's super clear. But if there are these opportunities that we chipped in, deploy them against business development, and it makes sense, we're going to do that and in my opinion like, for example, the Synergy thing, that is something that makes an incredible amount of sense based on the strategic fit within our Salix portfolio. So that we will allocate capital to -- for BD and other small things. I don't know if I answer you. I can't answer your question specifically, but I hope I provided at least the way we're thinking about it.