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Pharma’s dwindling alliances
The pharmaceutical trade didn’t have many mates that caught up for it when Democrats handed a historic drug pricing regulation in 2022. By the start of 2025, even lots of the trade’s remaining allies can have left Congress, Rachel Cohrs Zhang experiences.
Six of the trade’s closest mates on Capitol Hill which have served a collective 160 years in Congress have both already left or will seemingly go away this election cycle. Many have vital positions on committees with jurisdiction over well being care, and data bases that shall be troublesome to interchange
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