Pharma industry ‘getting away with murder’ abroad thanks to Trump’s policies
President Trump angrily accused the pharmaceutical industry of "getting away with murder" on drug pricing. Yet his policies are helping them do that abroad.
by Brook K. Baker and Katrina Geddes
Aug 21, 2017
3 minutes
Seven months after President Trump accused the pharmaceutical industry of he is busy lining the pockets of large pharmaceutical companies worldwide by giving them more power to charge higher prices overseas. Their price monopolies are likely to be extended under a promising “greater intellectual property protection” in multilateral and bilateral trade agreements. The North American Free Trade Agreement, for example, has already been pegged to to reflect those found in the United States. Canada, it seems, will be the
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