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[Buzzm1]

Cancer Patients Arrested for Protesting TPP's Big Pharma-Favoring Provisions http://bit.ly/1L4Ecsj

 

[Requiring] every signatory country to ensure its domestic laws expand drug companies' monopoly powers, leading consumers and healthcare providers to pay higher prices on more drugs for longer - or go without needed treatment. TPP rules would require countries to enact and maintain laws that expand drug companies' monopoly powers...

The TPP would require each signatory nation to include in its domestic laws granting of new 20-year patent monopoly for new uses of old medicines...

The TPP requires developing nations to transition to all of the same pro-monopolistic patent rules that apply to developed nations...

The TPP also would allow drug companies to privately enforce this public treaty by skirting US laws and courts to challenge federal, state and local decisions and policies on grounds not available in US law and do so before extrajudicial investor-state tribunals authorized to order payment of unlimited sums of taxpayer dollars.

 

[rct]

Nobody knows the true extent of the raging battle between the Haves and Have Nots like the chronically ill.  It is truly a sad world we are leaving our kids.

 

rct

[rcase13]

Well at least we have our pensions and 401ks to hand down to our kids. Hmm never mind they took that too.

[chriskuo]

It's the US politicians that are insisting on these restrictions in the TPP.

 

It's silly for Americans to protest the TPP.  That's non-productive.  If they don't like provisions of the TPP, they should vote out the politicians.  Yet, Sen Hatch gets elected over and over and over...  People should put the effort into voting that put into letting off steam to no purpose. 

[Buzzm1]

Stop the TPP before it Harms American Seniors http://bit.ly/1nWnZ37

 

Pharmaceutical companies and their corporate allies are doing their best to ram this harmful pact through the U.S. House and Senate - telling the American people one thing, while hiding the truth. TPP will let foreign corporations bypass U.S. laws, kill our jobs, and lock in sky high prescription drug prices.

 

TPP also contains extreme patent protections for name-brand pharmaceuticals that threaten to restrict access to cheaper lifesaving medicines in all TPP countries, including in the United States.