KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 – US President Barack Obama admitted at the at the Young South East Asean Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) town hall here today said that the prices of medicine are expected to go up once the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations have been ratified.
However, Obama said the nature of such trade deals is that all parties involved must be willing to make sacrifices or else the negotiations will never be concluded. He said now a day, there was many drug companies in US are mad at me while told us that why are we not protected any more?
“My point is that in this new global environment which the things are changing all the time while a part of his value is that the change must be good for ordinary people. I do not believe that we can stop change. I don’t think that by putting up a bunch of barriers to trade, it can stop change,” he said in response to a participant from Malaysia.
