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Article: Drug companies fight ballot measure.
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- North County Times (Escondido, CA)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2005
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Byline: William Finn Bennett
Sep. 7--Voters will face two competing initiatives to regulate the price of prescription drugs on the Nov. 8 special election ballot: one supported by the pharmaceutical industry, the other backed by a coalition of labor organizations and a consumer advocacy group.
If voters approve both initiatives, the one with the most "yes" votes would become law; the other would die.
Prescription drug manufacturers have anted up $72 million to get Proposition 79 defeated and the measure they support, Proposition 78, passed, according to news reports. And, as of June 30, reports filed with the California secretary of state show ...