likelihood of healthy outcomes for children if they re not skipping meals or having a says to nutritious meals. they re not worrying they will end up on the streets. so it is a healthcare bill, even though we didn t have a prescription drug in it yes. here s the thing. we beat the pharmaceutical drug companies. they wanted that have patent protections. we got it out. it is doable. it s not done yet. it is unfortunate there are some members in our caucus that want to keep us from doing that. but we will keep fighting. we ll keep our eye on it. congressman bates, i want to ask you this question. when you think about who delivered the power of the federal government to democrats, it was voters of color. record numbers of voters of color. so for fourth quarter, they don t wake up reading the post, the times or the journal and fought reading white papers or
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the europeans by advocating for lifting patent protections for vaccines, and they pushed back hard, angela merkel in particular, saying that alone won t increase production quickly, which is what they need, and there s a risk of the western mrna technology what s behind the pfizer and moderna vaccines simply being transferred to a country like china that can make use of it rather than helping nations like africa that really need doses. so there s a little bit of wrestling at the end. the us seems to want to go fatherthere, saying, lift those patent protections. the dutch, the germans, and the french seem to be holding back, saying, no, let sjust say ip should not be an obstacle to vaccine equity. here in cornwall, a number of ngos are hoping to have their say on proceedings, including the urgency of tackling global poverty. ruth valerio is an environmentalist, theologian and director of global advocacy at disaster relief and development charity, tea rfund. she told me what she
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