After we referred to him yesterday Professor Don Light contacted the campaign and sent us a presentation he made last month to Cornell University Medical College. In the presentation he outlines how Big Pharma influences the drafting of Free Trade Agreements such as the recent U.S.-Australia FTA. Utilising extensive and (in all senses of the word) unhealthy political influence, anti-Free Trade clauses are inserted in the agreements for the benefit of corporate interests rather than the public interest. Professor Light argues that the consequent high drug prices undermine business competitiveness and by increasing sick days reduces productivity.

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