Nap's banned, let's post about Dems being whores for Big Pharma

[Berniewood Hogan]

 

[the cac mamba]

i LIKE the democrats, but

 

[Pressure]

Other counties should innovate

 

[hashmander]

personally i've never liked that the same drugs that are made and developed here cost us more than it does in other countries. it's like we're subsidizing them.

but i'm not shocked by this both sides nonsense. so forcing 3rd world women to forgo breastfeeding is the same as drugs costing the same for everyone. personally i see the breastfeeding issue as coldblooded because that's what comes naturally to a new mother, but no one has a right to costly american drugs at cheap prices. so it's big bad worthless america until you need it for something.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

personally i've never liked that the same drugs that are made and developed here cost us more than it does in other countries. it's like we're subsidizing them.

but i'm not shocked by this both sides nonsense. so forcing 3rd world women to forgo breastfeeding is the same as drugs costing the same for everyone. personally i see the breastfeeding issue as coldblooded because that's what comes naturally to a new mother, but no one has a right to costly american drugs at cheap prices. so it's big bad worthless america until you need it for something.

The problem is prices are artificially inflated...

Look at 9 and 10...


It's pretty clear the Clinton administration was complicit in helping Amerikkkan "Pharma bros" artificially inflate drug prices...

 

[Secure Da Bag]

shyt like this is why Hillary lost.

 

[Don Homer]

it's crazy how people will only be outraged when trump does something, meanwhile Obama/Clinton have done the same thing, and you get crickets.

 

[Gains]

it's crazy how people will only be outraged when trump does something, meanwhile Obama/Clinton have done the same thing, and you get crickets.

Trump

 

[Russian Bot v.2.1]

Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy are being celebrated by nearly everyone in American politics, from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to President Barack Obama. But the U.S. government aggressively opposed Mandela’s political goals for decades. While President Ronald Reagan’s support for the apartheid state is well documented, Clinton’s work to undermine the economic foundation of the nascent Mandela-led South African republic is sometimes overlooked.

After Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994, then-President Clinton pressured the nation to adopt trade policies that benefitted U.S. corporations while restricting South African access to drugs treating HIV and AIDS. In the mid-1990s, pharmaceutical companies were charging roughly $12,000 a year for lifesaving AIDS drugs in Mandela’s country. For a nation with an average income of $2,600 a year, where roughly one-fifth of the population was HIV-positive, the drug prices were untenable.

Mandela signed a law in 1997 authorizing his administration to shop the globe for cheaper drugs. If the same medication was available at a lower price in another country, Mandela’s government would simply buy the drug abroad and import it. In the years since, some U.S. states — including Kansas under former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius — have experimented with similar policies to obtain prescription drugs from Canada in order to lower prescription drug prices for American seniors.

But American pharmaceutical companies were livid. The Clinton administration insisted the South African law violated World Trade Organization treaties — an interpretation later discredited. Clinton’s team pressured Mandela in trade talks to drop the new law, and began punishing South Africa by rescinding U.S. trade benefits for goods produced in the country.

 

[Don Homer]

Trump

im not caping for trump at all.

Im just noting a double standard.

To this day, people still say Obama was scandal-free. Well, this qualifies as pretty fukking scandalous.

 

[Pressure]

im not caping for trump at all.

Im just noting a double standard.

To this day, people still say Obama was scandal-free. Well, this qualifies as pretty fukking scandalous.

Obama had operation fast and furious which he encouraged his DOJ to investigate and prosecute.

It isn't that the Obama administration avoided scandal, Obama didn't stand in the way of holding those responsible accountable and then took responsibility himself.

But not giving away drugs to other countries for less than Americans are charged isn't scandal.

It's also just lazy criticism for a president who introduced single payer for Americans.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

It's also just lazy criticism for a president who introduced single payer for Americans.

Well the fact that he went from public option to individual mandate is still disappointing.

And that still doesn't excuse pricing out poorer countries for the sake of more profit.

 

[Pressure]

Well the fact that he went from public option to individual mandate is still disappointing.

And that still doesn't excuse pricing out poorer countries for the sake of more profit.

He didn't change anything.

Joe lieberman killed it. It was in the bill offered to congress by the Obama administration with a Dem majority.



That's a better conversation for this thread Tha this.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

U.S. Pushing To End Cheap Drugs For Poorest Nations

“We are disappointed that the U.S. Trade Representative’s office has chosen to deny a request by the world’s poorest countries that is fair, sensible and takes into account the multiple challenges these countries face, including a heavy burden of infectious diseases such as HIV and AIDS and [tuberculosis],” said Rohit Malpani, director of policy and analysis at Doctors Without Borders’s Access Campaign. Doctors Without Borders is a humanitarian organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. “Unsurprisingly, the approach adopted by the U.S. Trade Representative is not too different from the approach preferred by the multinational pharmaceutical industry.”

The Obama administration has spent over a year pressuring the Indian government to abandon its policy of providing a less expensive generic version of a new cancer drug. India, which features a per capita income of about $1,400 a year, is not considered a least developed country, but rather a “lower-middle-income country” and, as such, is required to comply with WTO treaties.

Although TRIPS requires countries to issue pharmaceutical patents and implement a host of other standards that give drugmakers greater pricing power, the treaty explicitly protects countries’ rights to produce generic versions of medications under a variety of circumstances.

In India, Bayer was charging $5,000 a month for its cancer drug — a price so high that only 2 percent of Indian patients who needed it could afford it. When the government licensed a generic producer to provide the medicine for $157 a month, the Obama administration declared in a congressional hearing that the move was an “egregious” TRIPS violation.

I understand protecting American interests but trying to bankrupt a country just so it can treat a serious virus/disease is beyond the pale.

 

[Pressure]

U.S. Pushing To End Cheap Drugs For Poorest Nations


I understand protecting American interests but trying to bankrupt a country just so it can treat a serious virus/disease is beyond the pale.

You're Indian. You've repeatedly spoken on Indian superiority ... .