Showing posts with label public funds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public funds. Show all posts

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Targeting costly meds, Biden admin asserts authority to seize certain drug patents - POLITICO

The determination, which was described by three people familiar with the matter, represents the culmination of a nearly nine-month review of the government's so-called march-in rights. Progressives have long insisted that those rights empower the administration to break the patents of pricey drugs that were developed with public funds, in an effort to create more competition and lower prices...

Friday, October 6, 2023

Nobel Prize winning mRNA was publicly funded

"This award challenges the claim that it was solely big pharmaceutical companies who saved the world from COVID-19. Just like the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, Karikó and Weissman's groundbreaking work on mRNA vaccines received a huge amount public funding. 

"Pharmaceutical companies have refused to share mRNA technologies with developers and researchers in developing countries...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Opinion | Catholic hospitals are expanding — and denying essential health care - The Washington Post

Some lawmakers are pushing back. One recent bill sponsored by New York state Sen. Michelle Hinchey, which has passed the Senate and awaits an Assembly vote, would require that hospitals publish a list of "policy-based exclusions," detailing the care they will not provide, on their websites. In Oregon, a new law gives state officials the authority to block hospital mergers that would result in restricted health-care access. 
But beneath these efforts lies unchallenged the notion that Catholic hospitals are within their rights to deny care. That religious organizations, despite their public funding, do not have to abide by secular standards...


Saturday, March 9, 2019

Kavanaugh is eager to use Trinity Lutheran to tear down the separation of church and state.

Does the Constitution compel state and local governments to subsidize religion? That question might seem preposterous, since the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause prohibits the government from funding religious exercise and limits its ability to fund religious facilities. Yet in 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court flipped the First Amendment on its head by ruling, for the first time ever, that the Constitution sometimes requires the government to provide public funds directly to a church. Its decision in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer blew a chunk out of the wall between church and state. And on Monday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh announced his intention to demolish the remainder of that wall by invalidating laws that bar government subsidization of religion...

Monday, August 21, 2017

Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies | Chalkbeat

When it comes to school choice, options are more limited for Indiana’s LGBT students.

Lighthouse Christian Academy in Bloomington recently made headlines for promising students an excellent, “biblically integrated” education — unless they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The school also received more than $650,000 in public funds last year through the state’s voucher program.....
https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/08/10/choice-for-most-in-nations-largest-voucher-program-16-million-went-to-schools-with-anti-lgbt-policies/









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