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it is from Politico:
Leaked: What's in Obama's trade deal
Is the White House going to bat for Big Pharma worldwide?
By Michael Grunwald
It would be a dramatic departure from U.S. law, and it would put a real crimp in the ability of less expensive drugs to get to market,
POLITICO has obtained a draft copy of TPPs intellectual property chapter as it stood on May 11, at the start of the latest negotiating round in Guam. While U.S. trade officials would not confirm the authenticity of the document, they downplayed its importance, emphasizing that the terms of the deal are likely to change significantly as the talks enter their final stages. Those terms are still secret, but the public will get to see them once the twelve TPP nations reach a final agreement and President Obama seeks congressional approval.
Still, the draft chapter will provide ammunition for critics who have warned that TPPs protections for pharmaceutical companies could dump trillions of dollars of additional health care costs on patients, businesses and governments around the Pacific Rim. The highly technical 90-page document, cluttered with objections from other TPP nations, shows that U.S. negotiators have fought aggressively and, at least until Guam, successfully on behalf of Big Pharma.
The draft text includes provisions that could make it extremely tough for generics to challenge brand-name pharmaceuticals abroad. Those provisions could also help block copycats from selling cheaper versions of the expensive cutting-edge drugs known as biologics inside the U.S., restricting treatment for American patients while jacking up Medicare and Medicaid costs for American taxpayers.
Theres very little distance between what Pharma wants and what the U.S. is demanding, said Rohat Malpini, director of policy for Doctors Without Borders.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/06/tpp-deal-leaked-pharma-000126?hp=t1_r
Kicking and recommending. Very important information.
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
HFRN
(1,469 posts)'more for us, is what's best for you, you're just not smart enough to understand it, that's why we can't tell you'
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Gosh it's wonderful to see Democracy in action.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Your article conflates generics and copycats which is unfortunate because they are two different things.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)Here's Obama's choice to head the Senate ACA "debate"-
Max Baucus is having single payer advocates *arrested* at a hearing- now if a Republican had done this many Democrats would care, but Max got rewarded with Ambassadorship to China, where he is no doubt working again for the middle class. What a joke. The voters get what they deserve.
If a Republican had done that many here wouldn't have forgotten. But since a Democrat *arrested single payer advocates at a hearing* it's really no problem.
Chop Chop!
(The mandate for the ACA was originally a Heritage Foundation idea- source)
"My policies ...could be Republican policies from the 80's"- President Obama
Vinca
(50,334 posts)Not that anyone has seen much of it . . . what the hell are they hiding?
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)I'm not sure how much of our base that represents
Tired of them always getting their ponies, I know that.