Health care sellout on a global scale: Secret TPP trade deal to hand worldwide price monopoly to Big Pharma…”It’s about profits, not “health”

Thursday, June 11, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

It turns out that there is another globalist player at the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiating table – Big Pharma – and if things go the industry’s way, all competition will be crushed, and the world will be at its mercy.

According to The New York Times, which cited newly leaked annex documents, the Obama Administration is no longer seeking protection for Big Pharma prices under the 12-nation deal, folding to pressure and resistance from the industry and the other nations involved in the talks. At the same time, U.S. negotiators are pressing negotiating partners to open up the process that establishes reimbursement rates for drugs and medical devices.

But the way the deal is being structured, the largest pharmaceutical firms will essentially be put in a position to destroy much of their competition, which is why public health officials, generic drug makers and others are opposing the deal. They “contend that it will empower big pharmaceutical firms to command higher reimbursement rates in the United States and abroad, at the expense of consumers,” the paper reported, adding that the TPP could also expose international markets to direct-to-consumer advertising that Americans have suffered.

“It was very clear to everyone except the U.S. that the initial proposal wasn’t about transparency; it was about getting market access for the pharmaceutical industry by giving them greater access to and influence over decision-making processes around pricing and reimbursement,” Deborah Gleeson, a lecturer at the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University in Australia, who has seen the leaked document, told the Times. And despite the fact that it has been toned down somewhat, she still added, “I think it’s a shame that the annex is still being considered at all for the T.P.P.”

It’s about profits, not “health”

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