[Ip-health] CPATH: KORUS & meds, tobacco, health care

[Ellen Shaffer]

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>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:05:52 -0700
>From: Ellen Shaffer <ershaffer@cpath.org>
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>The National Health Insurance Corporation of South Korea invited
>CPATH Co-Directors Ellen Shaffer and Joe Brenner to visit early in
>June and discuss our views on KORUS FTA's implications for access to
>affordable drugs, tobacco control and the encroachment of
>privatized, for- profit health care.  We found health advocates
>deeply concerned that KORUS will send the health care system veering
>off in just the wrong direction at just the wrong time.
>
>Although U.S. trade officials are attempting to ease threats to
>affordable drugs in poor countries like Peru, they have contended
>that in thriving economies like Korea's the market for medicines is
>fair game.  CPATH counters that trade agreements should not
>jeopardize public health, and rather should remedy the serious
>problems of many in advanced economies like Korea and the U.S. who
>can't afford life-saving medicines.
>
>Story and photos online at:
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>http://www.cpath.org/id29.html
>
>Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD MPH, Co-Director
>Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH)
>98 Seal Rock Drive
>San Francisco, CA 94121-1437
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>phone: 415-933-6204
>email: ershaffer@cpath.org
>mobile: 415-680-4603
>www.cpath.org
>fax: 415-831-4091 ---
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