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Switzerland: By Attacking Big Pharma, Biden Administration Threatens Attractive Jobs

Mallory Matsumoto - January 21, 2023. Published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Nowhere else are such high prices demanded for patented medications as in America.

South Africa: Vaccine Hesitancy: a Nonreligious Defense

Lalatendu Das - August 9, 2021. Published in Mail and Guardian

People are rightfully wary of advice issued by the CDC because throughout the pandemic they’ve not been a reliable source of information.

China: US Vaccine Aid to Taiwan Comes with Political Condition: Be Washington’s Pawn To Confront Mainland

Lalatendu Das - June 24, 2021. Published in Global Times

The U.S. should send 25 million doses to the island. Because 2.5 million doses are still a drop in the bucket.

India: Atmanirbhar (Self-Reliance) USA

Lalatendu Das - June 21, 2021. Published in The Statesman

The first of Washington’s policy prescriptions to meet these challenges is to highlight the domestic risks created by single-country dependence.

Taiwan: Is Taiwan a Beggar Sitting on a Pile of Gold?

Jennifer Sampson - June 7, 2021. Published in UDN

Canada: US Can’t Look to Canada To Fix Its Drug Mess

Rejeanne Lacroix - August 2, 2019. Published in Toronto Star

Sanders and Trump are both quite wrong, though, to suggest the fix for this mess lies in allowing big American drug purchasers to buy in bulk from Canada. This is an American problem that demands an American solution.

Canada: Desperate for Lifesaving Insulin, Americans Head to Canada

Rejeanne Lacroix - June 18, 2019. Published in Globe and Mail

Italy: Blood Donations: An Investigation Reveals the Business that Thrives on the Backs of the Poor and the Marginalized

Robin Koerner - May 20, 2017. Published in Il Fatto Quotidiano

The business model is simple: Buy plasma at a low cost in the U.S. and alter it to sell it for the price of gold.

Poland: A Socialist Protects the Rules of Capitalism in the US

Robin Koerner - November 17, 2015. Published in Gazeta Wyborcza

Shkreli is actually just a smart-ass taking advantage of the fact that in the U.S. — at least in the medicine market — there is no open market, that is, there is no capitalism.

Australia: Big Pharma Talks Up Trans Pacific Partnership but Profits Trump Patients

Robin Koerner - April 17, 2015. Published in The Sydney Morning Herald

The American business community's spin machine has gone into overdrive.

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