Word: bayh
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...EVAN BAYH...
...Indiana Senator and former Governor might not carry his conservative home state but could help in neighboring Ohio, a key swing state with 20 Electoral College votes. The boyish-looking moderate is not a fireball, though. A Kerry-Bayh ticket could be dull and duller...
VEEPSTAKES: Gephardt, Edwards, Clinton, Bayh--who will be Kerry's running mate...
...Bayh-Dole also granted the government so-called “march-in rights,” empowering it to circumvent privately held patents if a drug were not made “available to the public on reasonable terms” or if “necessary to alleviate health or safety needs.” On Jan. 29, Essential Medicines petitioned Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson to exercise these rights for the first time and allow for competitive production of Xalatan and Norvir–two blockbuster drugs that are scandalously overpriced...
...pair of march-in cases as the government is likely ever to face. If Secretary Thompson fails to act, he will not only ensure that Norvir and Xalatan remain inaccessible for many American consumers; he will set a damning precedent for years to come. The Bayh-Dole Act established private ownership of federally supported inventions as a means to better serve the public welfare. But government inaction would turn that calculus on its head, instantiating corporate profits as ends in themselves...