{"id":9367,"date":"2018-01-25T08:39:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:39:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:39:32","slug":"big-pharma-greets-hundreds-of-ex-federal-workers-at-the-revolving-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9367","title":{"rendered":"Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The \u2018Revolving Door\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Alex Azar\u2019s job hop from drugmaker Eli Lilly to the Trump administration reflects ever-deepening ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>A Kaiser Health News analysis shows that hundreds of people have glided through the \u201crevolving door\u201d that connects the drug industry to Capitol Hill and to the Department of Health and Human Services. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/big-pharma-greets-hundreds-of-ex-federal-workers-at-the-revolving-door\/?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=60213777&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9XkxcVss4uRP5LargxmWaZjnagRwmuuhz7va_ck4w_dly6MCruM-UzLBjMlbpP1XKxEkZrKFkaPhiSxoBEleWLzYqZGA&amp;_hsmi=60213777\">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: 400; 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; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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