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Published on Oct 16, 2014
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- On Democracy Now!, we look at the political and economic
circumstances of the spread of Ebola with science writer Leigh Phillips,
who calls for a socialization of pharmaceutical research and
production. Phillips says that using revenues from profitable drugs to
subsidize research for unprofitable drugs would reduce the costs of
vaccines and their development. He also argues the decimation of the
healthcare infrastructure is linked to the same free market policies and
austerity measures pushed by Western countries and the International
Monetary Fund that impoverished the West African countries where the
Ebola outbreak has occurred. "We need to begin to ask whether capitalism
itself is not pathogenic," says Phillips, whose recent article for
Jacobin magazine is "The Political Economy of Ebola."
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Watch all Democracy Now! coverage of the Ebola outbreak and global response in our archive:
http://www.democracynow.org/topics/ebola
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