Xavier Becerra in Jacobin Magazine

On Health Care: 2016: rescind patents for government funded medicine

Back in 2016, Becerra was one of the 51 House Democratic lawmakers who signed a letter calling on Obama's Health and Human Services secretary to use "march-in rights" to effectively rescind exclusive patents for medicines whose research and development was originally funded by government agencies. The lawmakers wrote, "The failure to act in the past has undoubtedly sent an unfortunate signal that prices for federally-funded inventions can be set as high as a sick or dying consumer will pay." Source: Jacobin magazine on Biden Cabinet Dec 7, 2020

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