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Related: About this forumTargeting Big Pharma Price Gouging, Sanders Backs California Ballot Fight
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/10/targeting-big-pharma-price-gouging-sanders-backs-california-ballot-fight'It is no surprise that the pharmaceutical industry has already dedicated $50 million to defeat this ballot initiative. Their greed has no end.'
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Targeting Big Pharma Price Gouging, Sanders Backs California Ballot Fight (Original Post)
Ferd Berfel
May 2016
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snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)1. knr
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)2. K&R
AzDar
(14,023 posts)3. When you take their millions, you've gotta take their side...
merrily
(45,251 posts)4. The first SCOTUS case holding advertising was protected speech involved drug prices.
Prior to that, the pharmacy professional associations prohibited all advertising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_State_Pharmacy_Board_v._Virginia_Citizens_Consumer_Council