The FDA's decision is "a win for consumers and for Bernie Sanders, who first spearheaded bus trips to Canada 25 years ago," wrote David Sirota, a former Sanders campaign adviser.
It’s time the U.S. had a health care system that operates as a public good, free from the demands of profit-making.
"Millions continue to die because pharma monopolies have created vaccine scarcity in the global south," said one public health campaigner.
Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology
firm, scored a largely unnoticed coup on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers inserted a paragraph into the "fiscal cliff" bill
that did not mention the company by name but strongly favored one of its drugs.
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