I believe that is the responsibility of the FTC, and I think the FTC has failed, has failed Americans in not undertaking that responsibility.

one of the issues that is most important to me is transparency and drug pricing.

We all want the same things. Republicans and Democrats want the same thing. We want affordability, accessibility. We want quality in healthcare.

One of the most egregious practices that I ever witnessed in anything was the gag clause that I was able to get passed in legislation to do away with...

Absolutely. And I can tell you, again, from experience as a pharmacist, that they don't it--that it decreases adherence, because they don't come back.

The attorney general has just recently undertaken a lawsuit against the PBMs, referring to them as gangsters. And that is exactly what they are.

If I could, there was a study done--and it is a little aged now, it was done a little bit over a year ago--by the Berkeley Research Group that showed--and listen, and if you remember one thing, then remember this: It showed that only 37…

I could not disagree more. They do exist, and the witnesses here today have already cited examples of where they exist.

The program needs guardrails. It does not need to be eliminated.

The Biden administration is to be commended for recognizing that disasters exasperate existing inequities and further entrench existing social and economic disparities.

You've seen what's happened in States like Ohio where the Attorney General just recently referred to PBMs as gangsters. And they are.

There ought to be a law that a PBM cannot own a pharmacy.