Prescription for the People : An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All

Prescription for the People An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All

In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines-and a prime...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: NEH CARES grant funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Quigley, Fran, 1962- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2017.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Culture and politics of health care work.
Materias:
Health care reform > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > United States.
Pharmaceutical policy > United States.
Drug accessibility > United States.
Prescription pricing > United States.
Drugs > Prices > United States.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649801206719
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  • People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need
  • The United States has a drug problem
  • Millions of people are dying needlessly
  • Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines
  • The current medicine system neglects many major diseases
  • Corporate research and development investments are exaggerated
  • The current system wastes billions on drug marketing
  • The current system compromises physician integrity and leads to unethical corporate behavior
  • Medicines are priced at whatever the market will bear
  • Pharmaceutical corporations reap history-making profits
  • The for-profit medicine arguments are patently false
  • Medicine patents are extended too far and too wide
  • Patent protectionism stunts the development of new medicines
  • Governments, not private corporations, drive medicine innovation
  • Taxpayers and patients pay twice for patented medicines
  • Medicines are a public good
  • Medicine patents are artificial, recent, and government-created
  • The United States and big pharma play the bully in extending patents
  • Pharma-pushed trade agreements steal the power of democratically elected governments
  • Current law provides opportunities for affordable generic medicines
  • There is a better way to develop medicines
  • Human rights law demands access to essential medicines.

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