Stop the new NAFTA from locking in high drug prices
Members of Congress
For millions of working families, NAFTA has been a disaster resulting in lower wages and lost jobs. Late last year President Trump signed a new NAFTA deal that offers improvements, but falls short of truly protecting working people.
There is nothing in the new deal to protect call center workers from more offshoring or properly enforce labor rights standards. The harmful ISDS, the private justice system for multinational corporations, is narrowed but still included in the deal.
That’s all bad. But the biggest giveaway of all in the new NAFTA is to big pharmaceutical companies. The deal guarantees extended monopoly rights for pharmaceutical companies to block generic competition and keep drug prices in the United States as high as they want. That’s terrible news, especially for the one in five Americans who already can’t afford the medicines they are prescribed.
But we have a chance to make sure the new NAFTA deal is improved before going before Congress for a final vote.
Sign the petition telling Congress to stop the new NAFTA deal from forcing Americans to pay more for prescription drugs.
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The revised NAFTA deal that Donald Trump signed would lock in high U.S. medicine prices. Big Pharma rigged the rules: NAFTA 2.0 guarantees extended monopoly rights for pharmaceutical corporations to block generic competition. This would tie the hands of this and future Congresses to change the policies that lead to high drug prices. It also would export these bad policies to Mexico and Canada. We call on Congress to ensure that Donald Trump removes the Pharma giveaways from the revised NAFTA text before Congress begins consideration of the deal.