Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Roark, Trey
Weisman 8/12 Weisman, Jonathan. Jonathan Weisman is a congressional correspondent, veteran Washington journalist. "Biden Presses Congress to Act on Prescription Drug Prices." N.Y. Times, 12 Aug. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/politics/biden-prescription-drugs.html.
WASHINGTON — President Biden implored Congress on Thursday to include strict controls on prescription drug
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blueprint that would allow them to pass the legislation without a Republican vote.
Stacey and Asgari 5/26 Kiran Stacey, Washington correspondent for the FT; Nikou Asgari, reporter covering the US pharmaceutical industry. "How drugmakers went from vaccine heroes to patent villains within weeks." 26 May. 2021, www.ft.com/content/96d10dc8-8158-4cbc-9876-0b7d0a1e774e.
The tone of that call, followed by the decision to support a patent waver
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that signed that letter could be enough to get us what we want."
And a WTO waiver takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU allies
Bhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden's talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater.
On the other hand, Biden, whose political life of half a century was
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, the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea.
Silverman 6/2 Rachel Silverman is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. Master's of philosophy with distinction in public health from the University of Cambridge, which she attended as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She also holds a BA with distinction in international relations and economics from Stanford University.Argument', 'The. "Opinion | Could Spilling Big Pharma's Secrets Vaccinate the World?" N.Y. Times, 2 June 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/opinion/covid-vaccine-ip-waiver.html. ~the original podcast was between multiple people, only person carded is Silverman so they're the only person cited~
~rachel silverman~ So I very much agree with Tahir that a lot of
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right, and not the immediate measures that we could be taking worldwide.
Gamba 6/9 Gamba, Tyler. Author at the AJMC. "Adoption of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act May Lead to Billions in Savings." AJMC, 9 June 2021, www.ajmc.com/view/adoption-of-the-lower-drug-costs-now-act-may-lead-to-billions-in-savings.
H.R.3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now
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on the significant portion it pays toward member premiums in the individual marketplaces.
Howrigon, 16 — Ron Howrigon, M.S. in Economics with a focus on Health Economics from North Carolina State University, President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies, 18 Years of Experience in Healthcare, 12-30-2016, "Flatlining: How Healthcare Could Kill the U.S. Economy," Greenbranch Publishing, 1st Edition, Accessed via Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-10
Ok, let's shift from looking at individuals to looking at the big picture—
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resulting fallout could be could be much worse than even the housing crisis.
Tønnesson, 15 — Stein Tønnesson, Leader of East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, "Deterrence, Interdependence and Sino–US Peace" International Area Studies Review, Review Essay, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 297-311, SAGE Journals, Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-4
Several recent works on China and Sino–US relations have made substantial contributions to
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each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene.