From Americans for Tax Fairness (https://americansfortaxfairness.org/): When U.S. taxpayers pay for a medical advancement such as a vaccine or prescription drug, we should have access to that taxpayer-funded invention at an affordable price. But, on its way out the door, the … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/20/reclaim-public-medicine-public-health Published on Thursday, August 20, 2020 by Common Dreams By taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, we can provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): It’s outrageous. Taxpayers are funding 100% of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine project, but they recently announced to investors that the company will be setting the highest price yet for a COVID-19 vaccine. [1] That’s right: they want … Continued
There are more than 1.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and nearly 100,000 deaths. We must never become numb to those numbers. Instead, we must fight to ensure everyone can get treatment and a vaccine—regardless of … Continued
From Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org): The COVID-19 pandemic has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives and could push billions of people into hunger and poverty in the US and across the globe. Safe and effective treatments and vaccines offer a … Continued
From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): Would we already have a COVID-19 vaccine if we de-privatized our pharma system? Probably. “We’d done a lot of research on coronaviruses, so we knew they were a clear and present danger,” Peter Daszak, who … Continued
From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): Faith in Healthcare is grateful to the terrific social movement weekly publication Waging Nonviolence for publishing this article by our editor. We offer it here to Faith in Healthcare readers in two parts. Part One can be viewed … Continued
From Social Security Works (http://www.socialsecurityworks.org/): We have long hoped for lower prescription drug prices that protect the American people from Big Pharma’s runaway greed. And this week, we may finally get a vote in the U.S. House. Speaker Nancy Pelosi … Continued
From the Citizens Trade Campaign (http://www.citizenstrade.org): The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) revision fails to make the changes needed to protect jobs, raise wages, defend worker rights and safeguard the environment — but it does contain special new … Continued
Posted at https://faithinhealthcare.org/fhc/beating-pharma-shell-game A trillion-dollar industry is in trouble. And it is fighting back. A Harvard-Politico poll taken after the 2018 elections showed that both Republican and Democrat voters cite prescription drug pricing as the top priority for this new Congress. A new Kaiser Family … Continued