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Joe Manchin: “For the PBM, pharmaceutical benefit managers, they are basically middlemen right now, as we are reducing price.”

On the recordMarch 21, 2023
For the PBM, pharmaceutical benefit managers, they are basically middlemen right now, as we are reducing price.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin discusses the role of PBMs in drug pricing.

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