[AGL] march-in rights are what Biden gave up

[Frances Morey]

"Until 1995, the NIH had authority to require companies to make drugs based
on public research available at reasonable prices. As The Intercept
<https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-vaccine-price-gouging-senate/>
reports,
this “reasonable pricing” authority was stripped by the Clinton
administration in 1995 at the behest of the pharmaceutical lobby.
Amendments were offered in Congress to restore the authority—in the House
by then-Rep. Bernie Sanders and in the Senate by Sen. Paul Wellstone
(D-Minn.)—but were defeated. When the measure was brought up in the
Senate, Biden
was one of eight Democrats who voted with Republicans
<https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=2&vote=00168#position>
to
table and kill the amendment."
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