{"id":1846,"date":"2014-06-17T22:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2014-06-17T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:51:10","slug":"american-drug-companies-dont-want-to-pay-us-taxes-but-they-want-global-customers-to-pay-us-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"American drug companies don\u2019t want to pay US taxes\u2014but they want global customers to pay US drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"anno-span\"><span data-num=\"1\">So who is fighting for the right of pharmaceutical companies to sell their wares at their prices, wherever on earth? Why, that same Uncle Sam that companies are avoiding paying taxes to: The Obama administration is negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which\u00a0would expand US free trade rules to eighteen countries around the Pacific rim, as well as\u00a0a free trade deal with the European Union<\/span>. <span data-num=\"2\">In both, the US is pushing for \u201charmonization\u201d of patent laws\u2014including\u00a0longer exclusivity for existing patents, limits on the release of drug data, restrictions on how government health care programs can control drug prices\u2014all of which mean higher prices for medicines<\/span>. <span data-num=\"3\">It\u2019s no wonder that pharma is the most active lobbyist <a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightfoundation.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/13\/tpp-lobby\/\">when it comes to trade talks<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/212657\/american-drug-companies-dont-want-to-pay-us-taxes-but-they-want-global-customers-to-pay-us-drug-prices\/#\/\">American drug companies don\u2019t want to pay US taxes\u2014but they want global customers to pay US drug prices &#8211; Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So who is fighting for the right of pharmaceutical companies to sell their wares at their prices, wherever on earth? Why, that same Uncle Sam that companies are avoiding paying taxes to: The Obama administration is negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1846\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[18,77],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-2","tag-patents","tag-tax-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}