WASHINGTON — Tucked in the massive congressional budget bill is a provision that props up the price Medicare pays for a handful of medications, costing taxpayers millions at a time when the Trump administration is vowing to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. Lawmakers acted after a lobbying campaign by a small Washington state pharmaceutical company called Omeros.
Lobbying Pays Off For Small Washington Drugmaker
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press, The Columbian
Sat, 03/24/2018 - 6:00am
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