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There’s quite a bit of discussion on how this could affect access to medicines. There was some suggestion (on Radio – verbal reference) that allowing Pharmac to lose it’s control over the import of medicines, or the use of generics, could cost us 100s of millions per year.
There’s a briefing paper linked off several sites, including the nursing council.
Explain how a TPPA could stop us providing medicines through Pharmac?
Pharmac identifies a list of medicines that are priority for government spending and negotiates the price it will pay for them with the drug companies. The Big Pharma lobby expects the intellectual property chapter of the TPPA to restrict the government’s ability to import cheaper generic drugs that keep prices down and to give companies more power over Pharmac’s decisions. Subsidies to reduce the cost of drugs could also come under attack.
What would that mean for New Zealanders’ access to medicines?
The health budget won’t go so far if the government has to pay more for medicines, meaning it would either have to spend more, fund fewer medicines or require people to pay more. Those who can afford increased premiums for private health insurance would get access to lifesaving medicines, while the poor would have to choose between paying for food, rent or medicines.
There’s also a list of New Zealanders views on it here. Martin Henderson? Probably didn’t need to know what he thought, but Jeanette Fitzsimmons and a few others interesting, although these seem like extreme interpretations in some cases.
ETA: Those quotes were from an ad last December.
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Islander,
Montoya. Not sure how that happened. Thumbs, not fingers.
Must be months since our last viewing. Time for another.
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My name is...
I just have one question. Who is your father? Mr Mantoya.
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Just got the chance to watch Media7. Perhaps we could introduce the "Braunias double standard." What's good for the goose is good for the gander, no?
Have to say this little quote from Braunias made me chortle;
Mr Braunias said of Mr Kemeys: “Editors come and editors go. I expect the paper will soon enough despatch the mediocre hack back to where he came from, which I understand is nowhere.”
From here.
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Jackie Clark,
“the glue that holds people together”
In Korean they have a saying 'the essential ingredient'. Not saying in what context that was used previously, although I seem to remember Karaoke (KTV), Soju and... nope lost it.
But this would seem apposite. Keep it in mind for the Food blog. ;-)
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Strangely I am now being followed by @DepeBufo for no reason I can think of other than this thread, who seems to have a blog about funny animal videos, and just posted this.
The web moves in mysterious ways.
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Hard News: Kittens and puppies for happiness, in reply to Russell Brown,
More Maru? One of the all-time classics, Mask Maru:
Life inside a brown paper bag is obviously not nearly as bad as one might think.
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Even if Laws does get the shift (don't hold your breath), he'll most likely win some award in a few months for best Op-Ed. It's happened before.
Hello Ian.
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Makes more sense down here.
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Now they just need to speed up the comment moderation..
No, you’re right they really do. When people start name calling back, it will only serve to drive more traffic to his ego, with more unfortunate collateral damage.
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Hard News: The Wall and the Paper, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I want a T-shirt that says “PC-wet”.
Ok, apologies for flippancy, but would that be a ‘PC-wet T-shirt’ competition?
Alternatively know as a ‘dry T-shirt’ competition.
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