02/09/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"When the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was established in 2003, for most people around the world an HIV/AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence."
"This level of concentration gives these PBMs market power over data, drug coverage, and contracting--80 percent."
"Would patients be better off if PBMs and other supply chain entities were paid flat fees for the services they provide?"
"Pharmacy benefit managers are key players, or should be, in alleviating patients' financial burden at the pharmacy counter."