Conservative Momentum Builds to Lower Health Care Costs

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Recently, Big Pharma and Big Government have teamed up in a full-blown attack against free market solutions in the prescription drug market by focusing on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) – which currently serve as the only real check on big pharmaceutical companies’ ability to set sky-high prices for prescription drugs.

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Skimming Money

PBM Representative Skims Off Drug Profits

Nearly half of every dollar spent by Medicare drug plans goes to private health insurers’ pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers

By Wendell Potter

As members of Congress get back to business after the holidays, they seem to be poised to pass legislation that would address some of the abuses of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen who extract so much money from the pharmaceutical supply chain.

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