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Strengthen Medicare— End Drug Company Price Setting It’s no secret that, four years ago, President Obama cut a deal with the pharmaceutical industry. He promised that so long as the drug companies did not block health reform, federal law would continue to prohibit Medicare from negotiating drug prices. Instead, the pharmaceutical industry would get 30 million new customers and remain free to set drug prices for Americans. This single policy will cost Medicare and U.S. tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars over the next ten years.
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013. The chapter published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents. Significantly, the released text includes the negotiation positions and disagreements between all 12 prospective member states.
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