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Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply
Access to affordable medicine is a human right. Yet across the United States, drug prices remain out of reach for millions, with the heaviest burdens falling on Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other communities long excluded from equitable care. At the same time, a profit-driven pharmaceutical system drains public resources and puts enormous pressure on the health systems communities depend on.
Public pharma offers a different path. This panel will explore three urgent questions:
Why is the current system failing us? Market failures, perverse incentives, and extractive private actors…
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