{"id":1497653,"date":"2024-02-13T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e67237584ac46d14550ef4aab27894c9"},"modified":"2024-02-13T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:35:02","slug":"judge-dismisses-big-pharma-lawsuit-challenging-medicare-drug-price-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/13\/judge-dismisses-big-pharma-lawsuit-challenging-medicare-drug-price-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Big Pharma Lawsuit Challenging Medicare Drug Price Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that the pharmaceutical industry&rsquo;s powerful trade group and allied organizations filed in an attempt to kill Medicare&rsquo;s new drug price negotiation program, which threatens manufacturers&rsquo; virtually unrestrained power to drive up the prices of lifesaving medicines. Judge David Alan Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas tossed...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/judge-dismisses-big-pharma-lawsuit-challenging-medicare-drug-price-negotiations\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/judge-dismisses-big-pharma-lawsuit-challenging-medicare-drug-price-negotiations\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second setback the pharmaceutical industry has faced in court since filing a barrage of lawsuits last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5743,5930,3493,8621,74335,4,34621],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497663,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497653\/revisions\/1497663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}