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On the recordJanuary 27, 2023
I thank the gentleman for his comments; they are insightful. He, like all of us, has constituents who have been inconvenienced and have been rudely and, quite honestly, just selfishly disrupted. He mentioned the fact that people who have been using the same pharmacy for years, now having to find another pharmacy, all because of profits, all because this company, Express Scripts, is trying to make more money off the back of our veterans. We should be ashamed. This administration should be ashamed for letting this happen. You hear it from me. You have heard it from some of my colleagues. I want to share with you just a couple of stories real quick; a story that was sent to me. I mentioned that we have heard from constituents, and we have. A concerned citizen wrote and said, I have been using the same pharmacy since 1985, and now I have to change; no choice of my own, but now I have to change. My pharmacist knows my family's medical issues, and now I have to train a pharmacist pertaining to my medical history. This is an example. Another one--and we are fixing to hear from a retired marine and general; but another one. As a retired marine Master Sergeant who suffers from exposure to Agent Orange and Camp Lejeune water contaminates, my family has used a local pharmacy in our hometown of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, for 25 years. Our pharmacist is not only a healthcare provider but is also a well- known friend and neighbor. One of B.A.…
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John Rice Carter
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