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"When Republicans launched a campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America), the pharmacy industry’s top lobbying group, denied taking a stance pro or con.\nHowever, PhRma financially supports one group in particular that is working hard to kill the ACA, the American Action Network. The Network ran an ad campaign urging voters to support the repeal – to the tune of $10 million. PhRMA donated $6.1 million to the Network the year before.\nThe reason no one knew about this right away? Nonprofit groups, like PhRMA, have to report their grants in their own IRS filings, so they would not become public for months.\nWell-known dark-money group\nThe Times reports that the American Action Network has become known for using dark money – defined as difficult-to-trace funds – for ads, phone calls and other methods to influence politics and kill Obamacare. They generally don’t have to make public who their donors are.\nPhRMA has denied that it backs the actions of the organizations that receive its donations. However, the amount of donations to politically active groups has been stepped up, coincidentally, with the campaign to kill the ACA. In 2015, it made about $1 million in political donations, compare with $10 million in 2016.."
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