Ten big lob­by­ing groups turn their guns on Al­ler­gan's con­tro­ver­sial patent gam­bit

Ten of the biggest health­care lob­by­ing groups in Wash­ing­ton, DC have joined the grow­ing forces lined up against Al­ler­gan’s patent gam­bit in­volv­ing Resta­sis.

In a let­ter to Con­gress, the al­liance — which in­cludes the Amer­i­can Hos­pi­tal As­so­ci­a­tion and Amer­i­ca’s Health In­sur­ance Plans — blast­ed Al­ler­gan $AGN for putting prof­its ahead of pa­tients and put their CEO in the same camp with no­to­ri­ous bio­phar­ma bad boy Mar­tin Shkre­li, the price-goug­ing ex­ec at Tur­ing who’s now chill­ing in a fed­er­al prison await­ing sen­tenc­ing on three felony con­vic­tions.

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