{"id":12478,"date":"2019-01-23T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:00:07","slug":"phrma-spent-a-record-breaking-27-5-million-on-lobbying-in-2018-new-filings-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12478","title":{"rendered":"PhRMA spent a record-breaking $27.5 million on lobbying in 2018, new filings show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nicholas Florko for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">W<\/span><\/span>ASHINGTON \u2014 PhRMA, the eminent lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry, spent more than $27.5 million on its lobbying activities in 2018 \u2014 the most the group has ever spent on lobbying in a single year.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/01\/22\/phrma-spent-a-record-breaking-27-5-million-on-lobbying-in-2018-new-filings-show\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=69224618&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9aF11xOQeQGPIPDi0h_2TPMDwg7CMDDfvI5euLKrqPqrRKoVuoP-CO6CpgwJm7_No-b4bRwZ27ENPyZMxBC6bXyO3zrg&amp;_hsmi=69224618\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nicholas Florko for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 PhRMA, the eminent lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry, spent more than $27.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12479,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions\/12479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}