{"id":6525,"date":"2017-04-19T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2017-04-19T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:54:30","slug":"nonprofit-linked-to-phrma-rolls-out-campaign-to-block-drug-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6525","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Linked To PhRMA Rolls Out Campaign To Block Drug Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Kopp and Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">A nonprofit organization that has orchestrated a wide-reaching campaign against foreign drug imports has deep ties to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, the powerhouse lobbying group that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a style=\"background: #ffffff; color: #003b79; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-color: #cecece; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phrma.org\/about\/members\" target=\"_blank\">includes<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u00a0Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Bayer.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/18\/a-new-worry-for-smokers-families-thirdhand-smoke\/\" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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