We support a call on the Biden administration to use the Defense Production Act to keep the Viatris Morgantown, West Virginia drug plant open, and to adopt an industrial strategy that prioritizes public health over private greed.
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For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive.
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To avoid the catastrophic effects on our health and our economy of hollowing out our primary care system, the U.S. should create a national program for universal public primary care.
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Public pharmaceutical enterprises are free from the constraints of profit maximization and can define their bottom line based on such values as their contributions to public health and local economic resiliency.
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In his new white paper, “Biomed Europa: after the coronavirus, a public infrastructure to overcome the pharmaceutical oligopoly,” Italian economist Massimo Florio proposes an international, transparent, public phar
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by Dana Brown, Alex Lawson, Christopher Morten, Fran Quigley
Now is the time to redesign our medicines system around open science practices, full-cycle public pharmaceutical production, compulsory licensing, and public ownership of the vaccine industry.
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