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. . . Two of more than 50 comment letters came from six California veterans’ groups, who blasted an ICER contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), saying its formula denies veterans care and “inherently discriminates” against people with disabilities, but no one from the veterans’ groups wrote the complaints. Officials from the organizations told Reuters they lent their names to letters that were composed instead by Peter Conaty, the pharmaceutical industry’s go-to lobbyist in California. A half dozen health policy specialists told Reuters that the veterans’ complaints look like part of an “astroturf” campaign – a phony grassroots movement backed by corporate interests.
See: www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drugpricing-lobbying-special-repo/special-report-big-pharma-wages-stealth-war-on-drug-price-watchdog-idUSKBN2621IQ
And: www.consumerwatchdog.org/blog/drug-companies-against-prop-61-repeat-rent-vet-strategy
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