E-drug: Re: US compusory licensing proposal for medicines
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Compulsory licensing was a major component of Senator Kefauver's original
bill that became the 1962 Drug Amendments. This was vigorously lobbied
against by the pharmaceutical industry as one would expect. However, the
Thalidomide disaster gave the proposed provision a boost. Compulsory
licensing for medicines might have been a component of the 1962 amendments
if it weren't for a last second intervention by the Kennedy Administration.
For a detailed account of the politics behind the Kefauver hearings and
passage of the bill, see Richard Harris' "The Real Voice" published by
Macmillan in 1964.
David Veazey
Dept. of Economics
Fordham University
New York, NY
VEAZEY@fordham.edu
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