the Every Student Succeeds Act puts states and school districts back in charge of education

Mr. President, on Friday of last week as I was getting ready to leave to go home to the State of Georgia, the United States of America, and the aviation industry received notice that Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Airlines, will retire…

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Mr. President, I rise to recognize another organization that is meaningful to all of us and in particular the Presiding Officer. It is called the USO--the United Service Organization--a private organization chartered federally in 1941 by…

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Drugstores just want to get paid what they are paying for it.

As the only pharmacist in Congress, I know free-market principles are the best way to provide quality, affordable health care to the American people.

None of the witnesses here today have had to look into the eyes of someone who is trying to make a decision between buying groceries and buying medication.

I am disgusted that we are here today to talk about drug price increases.

But I, for one, don't agree with that.

Mr. Merritt, isn't it true that your organization, PBMs, pharmacy benefit managers, isn't it true that three of your member companies control over 75 percent of the PBM market?

But the point is, Mr. Merritt, that you are deciding what you are going to reimburse the dispenser for it, and you are deciding what you are going to charge the insurance company for it.

And there are no two MAC lists that are the same. Each PBM generates their own separate list, correct?

That is spread pricing. That is what is happening, because you are not increasing--you are not updating--the PBMs are not updating their MAC lists.

If that is true, don't you find it somewhat odd that CMS found it necessary to mandate, to require, that these MAC lists be updated every 7 days and that 26 States have passed laws requiring PBMs to update their MAC lists?

That is a conflict of interest.

You abused the system, is what you did.