CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that a court dismissed a motion for summary judgment filed by the drugmakers seeking to toss key elements of an ongoing drug price-fixing case. Illinois and a coalition of nearly all states and territories filed three antitrust lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies and executives that allege conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition and unreasonably restrain the trade of generic drugs, accounting for billions of dollars of sales in the United States. The alleged schemes increased prices affecting the health insurance market, taxpayer-funded health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and individuals who must pay inflated prices for their prescription drugs. “Americans are tired of having to choos

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