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Registered Nurses Step Up Campaign to Stop Fast Track With New Radio Ads
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Registered Nurses Step Up Campaign to Stop Fast Track With New Radio Ads
Press Release
05 Jun 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland--(ENEWSPF)--June 5, 2015. The registered nurses of National Nurses United (NNU) are stepping up pressure on several members of Congress, urging them to vote No when the US House of Representatives considers Fast Track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The ads, which begin running on local stations today in six media markets, emphasize that right now, our government is negotiating new international trade agreements that will make lifesaving drugs much more expensiveespecially ones that show promise in battling cancer, MS and Alzheimers disease.
Congressional members identified as having swing votes and in whose districts the ads will run are: Rep. Steny Hoyer, Rep. Seth Moulton, Rep. Sam Farr, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Rep. Susan Davis, and Rep. Ruben Hinojosa.
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A Doctors Without Borders report says, the US government is pushing policies in the TPP that represent the most far-reaching attempt to date to impose aggressive Intellectual Property (IP) standards in a trade agreement with developing countries policies that further tip the balance towards strong IP regimes favoring commercial interests and away from public health.
For pharmaceuticals and other health commodities, stronger IP regimes mean extended patent monopolies and delayed generic competition, and that translates into higher prices for people who need medicines. In developing countries, where people rarely have health insurance and must pay for medicines out of pocket, high prices keep lifesaving medicines out of reach and are often a matter of life and death.
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Registered Nurses Step Up Campaign to Stop Fast Track With New Radio Ads
Press Release
05 Jun 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland--(ENEWSPF)--June 5, 2015. The registered nurses of National Nurses United (NNU) are stepping up pressure on several members of Congress, urging them to vote No when the US House of Representatives considers Fast Track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The ads, which begin running on local stations today in six media markets, emphasize that right now, our government is negotiating new international trade agreements that will make lifesaving drugs much more expensiveespecially ones that show promise in battling cancer, MS and Alzheimers disease.
Congressional members identified as having swing votes and in whose districts the ads will run are: Rep. Steny Hoyer, Rep. Seth Moulton, Rep. Sam Farr, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Rep. Susan Davis, and Rep. Ruben Hinojosa.
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A Doctors Without Borders report says, the US government is pushing policies in the TPP that represent the most far-reaching attempt to date to impose aggressive Intellectual Property (IP) standards in a trade agreement with developing countries policies that further tip the balance towards strong IP regimes favoring commercial interests and away from public health.
For pharmaceuticals and other health commodities, stronger IP regimes mean extended patent monopolies and delayed generic competition, and that translates into higher prices for people who need medicines. In developing countries, where people rarely have health insurance and must pay for medicines out of pocket, high prices keep lifesaving medicines out of reach and are often a matter of life and death.
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Registered Nurses Step Up Campaign to Stop Fast Track With New Radio Ads (Original Post)
bananas
Jun 2015
OP
PBO and the TPP ilk battling nurses????? Oh, that's right...they're Union. Proceed.
libdem4life
Jun 2015
#2
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)1. In a sane world, nurses and grandmothers would run the show,
While politicians and lobbyists would do the much deserved jail time.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)2. PBO and the TPP ilk battling nurses????? Oh, that's right...they're Union. Proceed.
This doesn't end well, no matter what now.