The Nobel Peace Prize–winning organization Doctors without Borders’ spokesperson — Dr. Judit Rius Sanjuan, the access manager for the United States — proclaimed dismay about something that many insiders had feared. That is, the Obama administration — in negotiations with 11 nations — is pursuing terms that will make medicine less affordable (less accessible via the Internet).
Take a look for yourself at the Trans-Pacific Partnership document. The full document speaks for itself, as Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reported earlier this week, along with all the names of the bipartisan opposition in Congress.
Obama may have the hardest-hitting administration when it comes to enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA and ADAAA), but clearly the operative word in this law is “American.” How disappointing that Obama protects Big Pharma over protecting persons with disabilities, and promotes preventative healthcare only on the domestic front.
Professor Ruth O’Brien, who earned her Ph.D. in political science at UCLA, joined the Graduate Center’s doctoral faculty in 1997 and, in 2004, founded the “Writing Politics” specialization in political science. She also serves as an adjunct affiliated scholar with the Center for American Progress. In her research and books, she focuses on American politics, law, political theory without national borders, globalism, and American/global dichotomy. She edits the award-winning “Public Square” series for Princeton University Press, showcasing public intellectuals such as Jill Lepore, Jeff Madrick, Anne Norton, Martha Nussbaum, and Joan Scott. O’Brien is also launching “Heretical Thought,” an Oxford University Press political-theory series that is global in outlook. Her latest book, Out of Many One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition (2013), with a foreword by journalist Thomas Byrnes Edsall, distinguished professor at Columbia’s School of Journalism, was honored with a 2013 “Author Meets Critic” American Political Science Association convention session. She also wrote Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care (2005), Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace (2001), which received an honorable mention from Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights and Bigotry (“Meyers Center”), and Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of the New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935 (1998). “Writing Politics” emanated from two books she contributed to and edited: Telling Stories out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination (2008) and Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act (2004), which earned another honorable mention from the Meyers Center. O’Brien’s controversial blog led Rush Limbaugh to dub her a “professorette.”
The Nobel Peace Prize–winning organization Doctors without Borders’ spokesperson — Dr. Judit Rius Sanjuan, the access manager for the United States — proclaimed dismay about something that many insiders had feared. That is, the Obama administration — in negotiations with 11 nations — is pursuing terms that will make medicine less affordable (less accessible via the Internet).
