0 covering the beat. it s very much a place that looks like america, but that means it does tend to skew a little bit more to the right because while you have a lot of black and latino, latino people you also have a very strong a lot of people coming from the american south and west. aline cooper, a great reporter on this beat, thanks for making time tonight. i appreciate it. that is all in on this thursday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you, chris. thank you for joining me at this hour. we have thrown out the show, as we sometimes have to do, because we need to start tonight with some news that has just broken on the front page of the new york times. this is a big deal. i will tell you, we re about to speak with one of the reporters whose by lined on this story. we re also about to speak with one of the subjects of this story. but in all the time i have been in this business, i have never covered anything quite like this before. i have never read a
https://www.afinalwarning.com/495234.html (Natural News) Rep. Katie Porter on Friday published a damning report revealing the devastating effects of Big Pharma mergers and acquisitions on U.S. healthcare, and recommending steps Congress should take to enact “comprehensive, urgent reform” of an integral part of a broken healthcare system.
(Article by Brett Wilkins republished from CommonDreams.org)
The report, entitled
While pharmaceutical executives often attempt to portray such consolidation as a means to increase operational efficiency, the report states that “digging a level deeper ‘exposes a troubling industry-wide trend of billions of dollars of corporate resources going toward acquiring other pharmaceutical corporations with patent-protected blockbuster drugs instead of putting those resources toward’ discovery of new drugs.”
companies here in germany are affected by product and brand piracy the damage to the german economy is estimated at around seven point three billion euros and we re talking about an amount per year that s just lost revenue the possible damage to a brand image can certainly not be measured now china is the worst patent abuse or a new technology is making it easier to create fakes three d. printers and gigantic clone workshops make it possible to copy not only components but entire machines this to give you an idea of the problem now our correspondent in singapore linda hong has been following these talks between china and the us and the piracy issues as well and it s good to see you now what does washington actually say china is doing or what are the allegations because it s mainly companies copying the products not necessarily the government of course. well you know there s been it s such