The administration’s welcome proposal to break up pharmacy benefit managers
CVS
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Abusing Drugs
How CVS uses its market power to destroy competing independent pharmacies.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Single Payer? How About a Profit-Driven Single Provider?
The CVS-Aetna merger creates a price-setting behemoth for medications.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Want to Bring Down Drug Prices? Go After the Middleman
“Pharmacy benefit managers”—companies that claim to lower prices—actually jack them up.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
How pharmacy benefit managers morphed from processors to predators