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'Profits over public health': Secret TPP Healthcare Annex published by WikiLeaks

• RT.com

The secret Trans-Pacific Paternship (TPP) negotiations showed that the Healthcare Annex has been seeking to regulate state schemes for medicines and medical devices. WikiLeaks said "it forces healthcare authorities to give big pharmaceutical companies more information about national decisions on public access to medicine."

The secretly negotiated trade deal has been widely opposed by industry professionals and activists in many countries, as it could "empower big pharmaceutical firms to command higher reimbursement rates in the United States and abroad, at the expense of consumers," the New York Times wrote. "American negotiators are still pressing participating governments to open the process that sets reimbursement rates for drugs and medical devices," the publication added.


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