[Gnu-darwin-distribution] [Ip-health] GNU-Darwin: current best recommendation

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Michael and all,

  I couldn't agree more!  Problem is that the prescription drug
lobby is a powerful one and has many senators and congressmen
in their pocket, and as a result curtailing the desires of this lobbying
group is very difficult.  As a result far to often we as consumers
become mear suckers for the taking and ever spiraling drug
and health costs by such lobby groups.

proclus@gnu-darwin.org wrote:

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> My message to the congressmen follows.
>
> WIPO, development, and public health
>
> I am writing in support of Senate Resolution 241 and House Resolution
> 525.  We need ways to insure that the power of the patent is not used
> against the public interest in people's well being.  When development
> and public health interests conflict with corporate interests, then
> policy should reflect an ethic where the public interest trumps.  We are
> not talking about a problem about which company profits by how much,
> which pales beside the life and death issues of access to medicine.  It
> is clear where our priority should be.
>
> Regards,
> Michael L. Love Ph.D
> Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
> School of Medicine
> Johns Hopkins University
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> Michael L. Love Ph.D
> Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
> School of Medicine
> Johns Hopkins University
> 725 N. Wolfe Street
> Room 608B WBSB
> Baltimore MD 21205-2185
>
> Interoffice Mail: 608B WBSB, SoM
>
> office: 410-614-2267
> lab:    410-614-3179
> fax:    410-502-6910
> cell:   443-824-3451
> http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
>
> Visit proclus realm! http://proclus.tripod.com/
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