<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div>Hiện nay rất nhiều y tá Mỹ đang phản đối Hiệp định Hợp tác xuyên Thái Bình Dương và thủ tục “Rút gọn” bởi vì nó đang làm tăng chi phí chăm sóc sức khỏe nói chung và giá thuốc cho bệnh nhân nói riêng.<br><u><br></u></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Không chỉ có các gia đình người Mỹ, mà ngay cả các gia đình Việt nam cũng sẽ bị ảnh hưởng nặng nề bởi Hiệp định này. Chi phí thuốc đắt đỏ sắp tới sẽ ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng những gia đình bệnh nhân nghèo đang được hưởng từ chính sách trợ giá thuốc của chính phủ.<u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><u></u> <u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Hiệp định này sẽ đi ngược lại những quy định nhằm bảo vệ người dân Việt nam khỏi sự tác động mạnh mẽ của các hãng thuốc, các phương thức tiếp cận thị trường của các thương hiệu quốc tế. Các loại thuốc sản xuất ở Việt nam sẽ không còn khả năng cạnh tranh. Giá thuốc căn bản cho người dân sẽ bị đẩy lên theo giá quốc tế.<u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Tất cả người dân Việt nam cần phải biết được hậu quả nghiêm trọng của hiệp định TPP và từ đó thúc giục chính phủ của mình không nên ký kết hiệp định này.</font></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>CHUCK SEARCY</i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i></i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>M +8 490 342 0769<br></i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>E <a href="mailto:chuckusvn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chuckusvn@gmail.com</a><br></i></span></b></font></div><i><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)">Sk chucksearcy</span></b><br></font></i></div></div></div></div></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,129,142)">American nurses are opposing the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and "Fast Track" authority because it will increase the cost of health care, and pharmaceuticals in particular, for nearly everyone who must buy medicine.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,129,142)">Not only American families, but Vietnamese families will be losers. Heavy new costs for medicines will hurt poor Vietnamese families who now benefit from government policies that keep drug prices low. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,129,142)">The TPP will override Vietnamese law that protects Vietnamese from the predatory sales and marketing practices of international drug brands. Generic drugs and Vietnamese medicines made in Vietnam will no longer be able to compete. Drug prices for ordinary Vietnamese will rise to international levels.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,129,142)">The Vietnamese people should know the consequences of the TPP and urge their government not to sign it. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(69,129,142)">CHUCK</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size:x-small"><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>CHUCK SEARCY</i></span></b></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i></i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>M +8 490 342 0769<br></i></span></b></font></div><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)"><i>E <a href="mailto:chuckusvn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chuckusvn@gmail.com</a><br></i></span></b></font></div><i><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(116,27,71)">Sk chucksearcy</span></b><br></font></i></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><br><p></p></div><div><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal!important"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/03/nurses-unite-to-stop-transpacific-partnership-fast-track.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29" target="_blank"><font>Naked Capitalism</font></a></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><u></u><u></u></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:normal!important"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/03/nurses-unite-to-stop-transpacific-partnership-fast-track.html" target="_blank"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>Nurses Unite to Stop TransPacific Partnership Fast Track</font></span></a><span style="font-size:1.571428571rem"><u></u><u></u></span></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Posted on</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/03/nurses-unite-to-stop-transpacific-partnership-fast-track.html" title="Nurses Unite to Stop TransPacific Partnership Fast Track" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(242,86,1);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">March 1, 2015</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> <span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">by <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/author/yves-smith" title="Yves Smith" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(242,86,1);text-decoration:none">Yves Smith</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.4pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">In case you haven’t noticed, nurses unions have emerged as a particularly powerful and credible labor/lobbying group. So it’s encouraging to see them use their bully pulpit to rally voters to contact their Congresscritters and voice opposition to the upcoming vote on so-called fast track authority for the TransPacific Partnership. I’m heartened to see, in the Real News Network video below, that the nurses’ representative puts forward compact, factually sound arguments as to why this misnamed “trade deal” is a sop to major corporations at the expense of citizens.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: On Capitol Hill, there’s growing buzz that a bill granting fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, could be up for a vote next week. The TPP involves 40 percent of the global economy. And if this bill moves forward, Congress would be allowed to pass it with a simple up or down vote, with no debate.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">But that’s not going over very well with the nurses representing the union National Nurses United. They gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday with one simple message for members of Congress.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">JEAN ROSS, COPRESIDENT, NATIONAL NURSES UNITED: Well, we want Congress to not abdicate its responsibility. Right now, if you look at this, what you know of it–and we know very little, because it’s negotiated in secret, right? Corporations have input. They’re basically writing a law for the people. The corporations are writing it. So the few people from Congress that have seen it, that’s one thing. You’re not supposed to abdicate your responsibility for debating, for amending, for asking what you should be asking: how does it affect the public that I represent? That’s what we expect them to do. And fast track is a way of totally abdicating that responsibility. It just says yes or no. You might even be able to see it in front of you, the many, many, many pages of it. There’s 29 chapters, and only five of them deal with trade. So their specious argument about you shouldn’t be against free trade–we’re not against trade. Trade has to happen. But we care how it’s done and how it affects us.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">DESVARIEUX: How the TPP will affect everyday people is still largely unknown, which is why some members of Congress, like Connecticut Democratic representative Rosa DeLauro, says that transparency must be demanded by the public.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">ROSA DELAURO, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (D-CT-3): –as [incompr.] as taxpayers, as the American public have a right to have more member of Congress have input into a process that has wide-ranging effects on every aspect of our lives. That’s simply what we are asking for.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">DESVARIEUX: But not all members of the Democratic Party are as vocal. Ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden is joining Republicans who will be pushing for fast-track authority. Currently, lawmakers can request to see chapters of the text being negotiated but are not allowed to bring aides. Also, the text has not been released to the public. What is known about the TPP deal is through documents leaked to WikiLeaks. One of those chapters released is the health care annex, which would affect medicine prices.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">DEBORAH BURGER, COPRESIDENT, NATIONAL NURSES UNITED: –the everyday life of nurses providing health care and nursing care to our patients. I’m sure you’ve heard many people talk about the expansion of the protections for brand-name drugs from, quote, eight years up to 12 years. And who knows? It might even go up to 20. Canada already has an eight-year limit on brand names. This is going to change that.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">DESVARIEUX: Higher prices for medication would hurt the already suffering middle class, says nurse Beverly VanBuren. She said her patients are already struggling to pay for medications now.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">BEVERLY VANBUREN, NATIONAL NURSES UNITED: A patient that had a transplant that ended up going back on dialysis because that patient cannot afford medication to keep the transplanted organ alive, survival. And now, after thousands and thousands of dollars we spent transplanting this organ, this poor person is back on dialysis.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">DESVARIEUX: Another major issue with the TPP deal is how it handles legal matters. It creates extrajudicial tribunals outside of a country’s legal system. Critics say this will undermine a country’s legal system, placing corporations’ ambitions over people, something Nurse Burger says has happened with past free trade agreements, like the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">BURGER: And we already know that under NAFTA, Eli Lilly did sue the Canadian government over their bulk purchase agreements, and also sued successfully the Australian government over their plain package labeling for cigarette smoking and tobacco sales. And they have won those in the under the NAFTA agreement.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">If you look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, that is NAFTA on steroids. It gives a star chamber–three lawyers that have a conflict of interest in deciding whether a corporation wins or loses their lawsuit against a certain state.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">But it’s not a two-way street. In laws, you can go to a court and actually appeal a decision. In this process, under the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, there is a star chamber with three lawyers that get paid $700 an hour to make a decision by the courts in that group, and their decision is final and binding on all signatories to the treaty.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">DESVARIEUX: The TPP is still not final, and nurses from the National Nurses United are pressuring members of Congress to reject a fast-track proposal, something they say they will remember next election cycle.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">ROSS: You know, if you don’t do the will of the people, the real people, and not corporation, which is a thing, not a person, then yes, we do need to look at that, because you need to start listening to what we’re saying and how it’s affecting us.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.5pt;margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17.85px!important"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">DESVARIEUX: For The Real News Network, Jessica Desvarieux, Washington.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div><br></div>