(COMMONDREAMS) Nadia Prupis, August 4, 2016 — The pharmaceutical lobby is gearing up for a massive, multi-million-dollar post-election ad blitz to fight the shifting rhetoric surrounding drug prices, Politicoreports.

Skyrocketing drug prices have become a  in the 2016 election cycle, bolstered by recent bipartisan legislation that aims to wrangle back control of the market and  from Bernie Sanders and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Now, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to push back on politicians from both sides of the aisle—a campaign that “will dwarf the $20 million that health insurers spent on the iconic ‘Harry and Louise’ campaign credited with sinking…Clinton’s health reform plan in the early 1990s,” reports Politico‘s Sarah Karlin-Smith.

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