STAT+: A mysterious anti ‘Big Pharma’ bus is barnstorming swing states

Whoever’s bankrolling the anti-pharma bus tour has gone to extreme lengths to hide their identity.

WASHINGTON — The wheels on a big red bus emblazoned with anti-pharmaceutical industry messaging are going ’round and ’round all through the nation’s electoral battlegrounds, from Montana to Arizona to Pennsylvania.

But nobody will say who’s paying to fill up the gas tank.

A new dark-money group called Americans for Pharma Reform has launched a multi-state bus tour to bring awareness to what they characterize as bad behavior by the pharmaceutical industry. The group is only a few weeks old, and it was officially formed on Aug. 28. 

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