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This week, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
negotiators have been meeting in Salt Lake City to hash out the final
details of the TPP before the end of the year. They have been ‘welcomed’
with daily creative protests. We understand that the protests are
giving negotiators from other countries the courage to stand up to the
US.
However, word leaked out yesterday that the US negotiators are using
outrageous bullying tactics to force other countries to accept
exorbitant patent protections that will keep the cost of healthcare and
medical treatments high and out of our reach. This hurts everyone!The bullying is being led by Stan McCoy of the Office of the US Trade Representative. As a former employee of Covington and Burling, the world’s largest defender of Pharma’s profits, McCoy is accustomed to doing whatever it takes to protect his clients profits, even at the expense of human suffering and lives.
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