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WikiLeaks Releases Section of Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement That Would Affect Health Care
WikiLeaks has released a draft of an annex of a secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which would likely enable pharmaceutical companies to fight the ability of participating governments to control the rise of drug prices. It would empower companies to mount challenges to Medicare in the United States.
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"According to WikiLeaks, few in the governments of negotiating countries have access to the “full text of the agreement and the public, who it will affect most,” have no access at all. “Hundreds of large corporations, however, have been given access to portions of the text, generating a powerful lobby to effect changes on behalf of these groups."
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These writers at Onion are just awesome!...and damned funny! We should shoot them, we can't have sarcasm, we might offend someone.