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At a rally outside PhRMA’s headquarters, activists accuse drug makers of blocking ‘Medicare for All’

A crowd of roughly 200 progressive protestors planted themselves outside PhRMA headquarters Monday with a message for the drug industry: get out of our way.

WASHINGTON — A crowd of roughly 200 progressive protestors planted themselves on the ground in the middle of a normally bumper-to-bumper four-lane corridor here Monday with a firm message for the drug industry: get out of our way.

The crowd wasn’t there — in front of the trade association PhRMA’s headquarters — to protest a specific drug’s price spike or an unsafe drug. Instead,

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