Obama's Global Health Policy Undercuts Reform At Home

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/obamas-health-policy-global-health-reform_n_1659742.html
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*Huffington
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07/10/2012*

*Obama's Global Health Policy Undercuts Reform At Home

"That the Obama administration cannot see the gross inequity of charging
$5000 per person per month for a cancer medicine in a developing country
says a lot about this government. Affordable care, it seems, is only for
U.S. citizens [sic], not for the developing world."

     -- Shiba Phurailpatam of the Asia Pacific Network of people living
with HIV/AIDS
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*Zach Carter
zach.carter <at> huffingtonpost.com

Sabrina Siddiqui
sabrina.siddiqui <at> huffingtonpost.com
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WASHINGTON -- A few hours after the Supreme Court upheld his signature
health care legislation last week, President Barack Obama approached a
White House podium, addressed the camera and declared that the nation's top
justices had reaffirmed an important guiding principle of his presidency.

"Here in America -- in the wealthiest nation on Earth -- no illness or