Sanders Wars With Drug Companies as Wikileaks Reveals How TPP is a ‘Death Sentence’ for Patients
IMHO Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who will keep his word, once elected, about opposing the TPP. As this article points out, the M$M's virtual black-out on the TPP will keep the public largely in the dark until it's too late, UNLESS we
elect new POTUS who will unequivocally fight the TPP tooth & nail, until it's a footnote in recent history.
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Sanders Goes to War Against Drug Companies as Wikileaks Reveals How TPP is a ‘Death Sentence’ for Patients by James Woods * October 9, 2015 * US Uncut
Wikileaks publishes a new trove of documents exposing how the TPP is a giveaway to drug companies. Sanders says he will stop them both.
For more than two years, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been asking for more transparency surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the secret negotiations between CEOs and world leaders that have been taking place for a decade.
On Friday, Wikileaks managed to provide it by leaking a chapter of the TPP that deals with intellectual property and it has already exceeded the worst “doom and gloom” predictions painted by Sanders. Both Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren have been at the forefront of the vocal opposition to the trade agreement, which would make up more than 40 percent of global gross domestic product.
According to the leaked documents, the TPP would place new restrictions on less-expensive generic drugs and force people to pay as much as possible for life-saving drugs, which advocates have called a death sentence. Public Citizen, who has reviewed the complete chapter, believes that the TPP could have severe consequences on the pharmaceutical industry.
“The finalized chapter would require all countries eventually to conform to every pharmaceutical patent rule in the TPP, regardless of any individual country’s wealth or level of development. If adopted, the rules will delay generic and biosimilar competition, making the medicines upon which people depend to stay alive expensive for longer and, as a consequence, unobtainable.”
As frightening as the implications of that are, what is more frightening is that the media outlets that are supposed to inform the public about these trade agreements continues to ignore the warnings of elected officials like Sanders, who has been screaming from the rafters about the TPP for years.
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