{"id":5371,"date":"2016-12-22T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T14:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T14:08:52","slug":"alleged-scheme-to-fix-generic-drug-prices-started-at-dinners-and-girls-nights-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5371","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Scheme To Fix Generic Drug Prices Started At Dinners And \u2018Girls Nights Out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia, and Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio published by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The high prices Americans pay for generic drugs may have been cooked up by pharmaceutical salespeople on golf courses, at a New Jersey steakhouse or over martinis at a \u201cGirls Nights Out\u201d in Minnesota. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/alleged-scheme-to-fix-generic-drug-prices-started-at-dinners-and-girls-nights-out\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=39678113&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8hcvC6GBcpi4M_cgy3rzTXRg8wFPV6CjzPHizTeIHZix7JQ_ANIB4bQ8-Kvsr434Z2wMs-f3bap91BAs9-PWxat_1w_A&amp;_hsmi=39678113\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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