The patent term adjustments and the loosening of terms for the repatenting of existing drugs are also a concern to us because the public health burden is going to get bigger.
The fact that lawyers are the people who are going to be adjudicating any dispute is a huge problem. Do they have any knowledge of public health whatsoever? Who chooses them?
Given that the ecological determinants of health are more important to health than anything that happens in the hospital, if your mom were diagnosed with cancer, would you leave the decision about her treatment to a lawyer? If you wouldn't, then it makes no sense to ratify this agreement as it's currently written.