Meghan Fredrich

…of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been cut dramatically. Moreover, drug companies have been allowed to maintain extensive and unjustified patents over their products, and seek to extend that control through things like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They also have high-paid lobbyists to fight against sensible policies like price negotiation, pricing based on efficacy, and transparency measures. This is why Daraprim can cost $750 per pill in the U.S. and only $0.10 per pill in other countries.

d with…ligent, more hard working and more talented than the people I worked with. I deserved a ‘good’ job. I had an inflated sense of self that comes with being a person of privilege.

If you’re a white girl in your early 20s you will be ridiculed for working at McDonalds. But I don’t think the same applies for disabled people, or middle-aged Pasifika women or immigrants. Their friends aren’t quietly snickering, ‘when are you going to get a real job?’ Because this is the job we expect them to have.