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Malaysian Government Backing Away From TPP Support: Worried About Locking Up Medicine
from the good-for-them dept
As the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations move forward, it appears that some more members are expressing concerns. In the past, we'd noted that politicians in Chile were questioning what benefit there was to being locked into the US's rules. And, now, another TPP negotiating member, Malaysia, seems to be questioning the agreement. The report claims that the government is now against TPP, though the actual article really only highlights the (significant) concerns from Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, who claims that TPP "would be detrimental to the local medical industry."
"We are against the patent extension. According to the agreement, if a medicine is launched in the US, and then three years later it is launched in Malaysia, the patent would start from when it is launched here and not when it was launched earlier in the US," said Liow. "This is not fair."The end result, he warns, is that the TPP would make healthcare less affordable to citizens of Malaysia. Hopefully he really does represent the views of the Malaysian government and they really are considering dropping out over this issue.
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Dirty Commie!
Capitalism is comin', oh yeah baby!!!
Muwahahaha...
Free American style market economy for the win!!!
USA, USA, USA!!!
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That made me laugh so heartily that I almost peed. There isn't a free market in the Western World.
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If not this then what is left?
If the health of your own people isn't a reason to ditch a stupid trade agreement I don't know what is...
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Anonymous is now paying for propaganda videos against granted monopolies :)
ps: Anonymous donors that is.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/anonymous-donors-bring-hollywood-production-va lues-to-anti-mpaa-video/
Maybe they do a short on the whole drug monopoly stuff too.
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Damn freetards think they have some kind of a right to live without paying for it!
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lol
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