A skirmish over drug pricing escalated Monday when the pharmaceutical industry filed a lawsuit to prevent consumer activists in Ohio from pursuing a ballot measure designed to lower the cost of medicines.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America contends that the activists failed to legally obtain the signatures needed to get their measure on the state ballot. Known as the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act, the proposal would require the state to pay no more for medicines than the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Currently, the VA gets a 24 percent discount off average manufacturer prices.
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