Re: Thai poor can't pay rich prices to save their lives? tough sh*t, hints Minister Chaiya

"Tchiowa" wrote ...
"maxwell" wrote:
"Tchiowa" wrote ...

> Yet another example of how 'the party of the poor' is a party of the > rich.

Yes. How dare they think about the future

~Poor Thai (as MOST are) with cancer, and their families, do NOT have that degree of freedom to think about the future, or much fair expectation of even HAVING much of a future,

And the Left seize on their pain, promising something they can't deliver and openly destroying the future for other people in order to try to get cheap political support.

~Ummm, CL is a direct approach toward affordable modern medicine in developing nations, and neither the previous government of the generals nor the WTO is 'the Left'
So you're just blowing bull***.

and while such a one as 'tchiowa' could not in truth give a FF about the agonies of other peoples' cancers metastatizing
and of their deaths, Public Health officials damn well SHOULD.

My mother-in-law died of cancer so your stupid attempt at an insult is offensive. But that's the Left for you.

~It's not about your mother-in-law, so your stupid attempt at taking it personal is transparent: the "other peoples' cancers metastatizing" refers to Thai without the means to purchase cutting-edge pharmaceuticals and similarly costly therapeutics, which is NOT the case for the rich or those having kin such as you or I.

You, on the other hand, either don't know or don't care what the long term consequences of your policies are. You, for example, couldn't give a damn about the 10's of millions of people killed by the Green movement you support.

~Nice try at taking it OT.

rather than grasping at a short term solution

~Pathetic. Calling fast access to better medicine for cancer patients "a
short term solution" is the sort of drivel that only ones wealthy enough to
afford best medicine for self and kin, and uncaring about many tens of
thousands of common folks in agonies could so glibly utter--and quite
without any proof, per usual.

No, it's the kind of thing that Leftists simply can't understand. You want to have a short term solution and you neither know nor care about the consequences. Had your beliefs been widespread 20 years ago we wouldn't need to have this discussion because the drugs they are trying to get simply would not have been invented.

~Simply false.

And if your
policies were adopted now, 20 years from now more would be dying
because of a drug that didn't get invented. But of course that
couldn't be proven so you can blindly move on.

The poor should get the drugs. But they should get them because the Thai government negotiated a deal with the drug companies to buy them at a fair price and then help the poor.

~That's both 'the best of all possible worlds' AND a good piece of what the previous health minister was doing, TYVM.

Not by simply stealing.

~Simply false, becasue the WTO Compulsory Licensing provisions are not 'simply stealing'
~Try reading facts instead of just spewing--surprise those who still read your posts!

<q>U.S. Welcomes New WTO Compulsory Licensing Policy
Portfolio Media, New York (December 6, 2005)--The U.S. government put its stamp of approval on new compulsory licensing rules by the World Trade Organization, which dramatically decrease intellectual property barriers faced by developing countries fighting life threatening diseases.

The agreement will solidify a similar, temporary arrangement in place since August 2003. It allows countries to override patent rights when exporting life-saving drugs to developing countries that lack a pharmaceutical industry.

((and also for in-country provision in developing nations))

The office of the U.S. Trade Representative hailed the move, which will amend the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Delays earlier in the year frustrated member countries, who could not agree after several meetings on the details of the amendment.

"This is a landmark achievement that we hope will help developing countries devastated by HIV/AIDS and other public health crises," said chief U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman. </q>

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