Tournament: Lafayette City Round Robin | Round: Semis | Opponent: Ascension CS | Judge: Sasha Kreinik
I affirm the resolution, Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
I defend a one-and-done elimination of arbitrary patent extensions. That's normal means.
Feldman 18-
Robin Feldman (Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, Director of Center for Innovation). “‘One-and-done’ for new drugs could cut patent thickets and boost generic competition.” 11 February 2019. https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug -patent-protection-one-done/. TCHS-CS
I believe that...
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...and no more.
Dr. Tommy J, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Africana Studies, and a Ray A. Rothrock Fellow at Texas AandM University; first Black JV National Debate champion (for UMKC) and was half of the first all Black CEDA team to win the Pi Kappa Delta National Debate Tournament. “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century.” 2014. TCHS-CS
Despite the pronouncement...
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...our value orientations.
However, not all instances of injustice are created equal. Our standard moral deliberations exclude people based on arbitrarily perceived differences rather than dessert. This requires ethical standards to shift towards those morally excluded by social structures to compensate for gaps in our ethical deliberation
Winter and Leighton 99-
Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton, 6-1-99, Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych,Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas, “Structural Violence Section Introduction”,Peace, conflict, andviolence: Peace psychology in the 21st century.New York: Prentice-Hall. TCHS-CS
Finally, to recognize...
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...appreciation of diversity.
And, engaging with the state via political action is the only practical way to challenge dominant power hierarchies
Bryant 12–
Levi Bryant Professor of Philosophy at Collin College. In addition to working as a professor, Bryant has also served as a Lacanian psychoanalyst. He received his Ph.D. from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, where he originally studied 'disclosedness' with the Heidegger scholar Thomas Sheehan. Bryant later changed his dissertation topic to the transcendental empiricism of Gilles Deleuze. “War Machines and Military Logistics: Some Cards on the Table” 9/15/2012. CS
We need answers...
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...in effective terraformation.
Thus, the standard is resisting oppression.
Robin Feldman (Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, Director of Center for Innovation). “May your drug price be evergreen.” Journal of Law and Biosciences. Volume 5, Issue 3. December 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsy022. TCHS-CS
The study results...
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...added to them.
The only comprehensive study flows Aff. The evergreening strategy is ubiquitous and stifles innovation, thereby preventing life-saving drugs from entering the market. Thus, the aff isn’t anti-patent but pro-innovation. Preventing companies from creating patent walls is key to revitalize the market and kickstart innovation.
Arnold Ventures 20-
9-24-2020 "'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers" https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/ (Arnold Ventures is focused on evidence-based giving in a wide range of categories including: criminal justice, education, health care, and public finance) re-cut by TCHS-CS
Feldman led the...
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...protection from HIV.
Public Citizen “Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power and work to ensure that government works for the people – not for big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 500,000 members and supporters throughout the country. We don’t participate in partisan political activities or endorse any candidates for elected office. We take no government or corporate money, which enables us to remain fiercely independent and call out bad actors – no matter who they are or how much power and money they have.”, “Waiver of the WTO’s Intellectual Property Rules: Facts vs. Common Myths,” Public Citizen Global Trade Watch Series. March 29, 2021. Accessed Aug. 10, 2021. https://www.citizen.org/article/waiver-of-the-wtos-intellectual-property-rules-myths-vs-facts/ AT
Most critically, there...
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...access to medicines.
Expanding access to medicine stops numerous scenarios of structural violence in developing nations.
Baker 17-
(Dean Baker is an American macroeconomist and co-founder, with Mark Weisbrot, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is credited as one of the first economists to have identified the 2007–08 United States housing bubble., Arjun Jayadev is an Associate Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University and University of Massachusetts Boston., Joseph Stiglitz is an American economist, public policy analyst, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal.), “Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: A BETTER SET OF APPROACHES FOR THE 21st CENTURY”, July 2017, Azim Premji University and Columbia University, pg. 27-28, https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/sites/jstiglitz/files/IP20for2021st20Century20-20EN.pdf TCHS-CS
28 Our focus in...
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...is socially optimal.
Independently, stopping future pandemics through increased pharmaceutical innovation prevents massive loss of life if not full-on extinction
Pamlin and Armstrong 15-
(Dennis Pamlin: Executive Project Manager Global Risks, Global Challenges Foundation. Stuart Armstrong: James Martin
Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. February 15, “12 Risks that threaten human civilisation: The case for a new risk category”, Global Challenges Foundation, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291086909_12_Risks_that_threaten_human_civilisation_The_case_for_a_new_risk_category TCHS-CS
Infectious diseases have...
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...or further pandemics).
Tahir Amin 6-27-2018 "The problem with high drug prices isn't 'foreign freeloading,' it's the patent system" High drug prices caused by US patent system, not 'foreign freeloaders' (cnbc.com) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/high-drug-prices-caused-by-us-patent-system.html (co-founder of nonprofit I-MAK.org) TCHS-CS
'Evergreening' Instead of...
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...to afford treatment.
Rose Hoban 9-13-2010 "High Cost of Medicine Pushes More People into Poverty" https://www.voanews.com/science-health/high-cost-medicine-pushes-more-people-poverty (spent more than six years as the health reporter for North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC, where she covered health care, state health policy, science and research with a focus on public health issues. She left to start North Carolina Health News after watching many of her professional peers leave or be laid off of their jobs, leaving NC with few people to cover this complicated and important topic. ALSO cites Laurens Niens who is a Health Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam) re-cut by TCHS-CS
Health economist Laurens...
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... medicines," Niëns says.
David A. Ansell, Senior Vice President, Associate Provost for Community Health Equity, and Michael E. Kelly Professor of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago), holds an M.D. from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University College of Medicine, 2017 (“American Roulette,” The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, Published by the University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226428291, p. kindle 307-363)
There are many...
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...to fix it.
Clifton Bryant 2011 “The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behaviour” (former professor of sociology at VA Tech) TCHS-CS
Now, the field...
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...buy uncovered medications.
And, counterfeit drugs kill millions of people each year
Greenberger 20-
Phyllis E. Greenberger 12-3-2020 "Counterfeit Medicines Kill People" https://www.healthywomen.org/health-care-policy/counterfeit-medicines-kill-people/who-suffers-because-of-counterfeit-drugs (HealthWomen’s Senior Vice President of Science and Health Policy) re-cut TCHS-CS
Over 1 million...
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...even rat poison.