'BradCast' 9/16/2022 (Guest: Legal analyst Ernest Canning on Big Pharma, CA manufacturing insulin)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Americans are still paying the price for Ronald Reagan's 1987 Executive Order that gave away the taxpayer store to Big Pharma. The CDC recommends that Americans get newly reformulated, bivalent COVID vaccine booster shots before Halloween to lower the risk of infection, hospitalization and long COVID. Updated vaccines are necessary because, despite billions of dollars in taxpayer funding to develop them, private pharmaceutical giants refuse to give up their patent rights to make the vaccines available to the world, giving ample opportunity for new variants to emerge, extending the pandemic and in turn delivering more profits to Big Pharma. ERNEST A. CANNING, legal analyst at The BRAD BLOG, explains how we got here:\\xa0 from Reagan's 1987 'gift' to wildly profitable pharmaceutical companies and how it enabled the explosion of patent abuse by Big Pharma, to why there are no easy fixes, and what can be done to repair the system. Canning also offers brighter news on a landmark effort in the state of California to cheaply manufacture live-saving insulin to bypass Big Pharma's outrageous prices. Also today:\\xa0 new developments in the broadening criminal conspiracy investigation by Fulton County, GA District Attorney Fani Willis into Donald Trump's multi-pronged, failed efforts to steal the 2020 Presidential election. The founder and CEO of outdoor gear brand Patagonia announced he has donated the $3 billion for-profit company with the mandate that all of its profits go to combat the climate crisis."