After all the UK government has done to back them, Big Pharma still isn’t happy. They say the UK should be put on a US trade sanctions ‘watch list’ because the #NHS has too much power to negotiate down medicine prices. #PeoplesVaccine 🧵 1/ 
Basically, ‘the NHS doesn’t pay Big Pharma enough.’ And worryingly, they think the UK government might agree with them – welcoming a NICE review, though still they think it should go further. This would represent a massive threat to the #NHS. 2/
They also think we should break from Europe’s new approach to medicine approval, because it weakens, ever so slightly, Big Pharma’s monopolies on drugs. 3/
In any trade discussions, they’re urging the US to push Britain to meet the highest possible monopoly protections for Big Pharma. Really, it’s never enough for these guys. 4/
Worth remembering that this is the body which accused Nelson Mandela of ‘piracy’ when he tried to lower the price of drugs in South Africa during the AIDS crisis, going all-out to isolate and bully S Africa. Real charmers. 5/ #PeoplesVaccine jacobinmag.com/2016/10/bill-c…
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