TELL CONGRESS: Sen. Warren introduced a bipartisan bill to break up giant health care companies and lower medication costs at pharmacies. Sign the petition: Break up giant health care conglomerates like UnitedHealth! Harris, Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing a bipartisan bill that would break up giant health care corporations like UnitedHealth and CVS. If passed, the Patients Before Monopolies Act would force big health corporations to each sell their respective pharmacies within three years. That would put an end to corporate inflation of medication prices at pharmacies.1 It's a clear win for consumers and patients, and we need to build the bipartisan support behind this bill. Senator Warren is targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — companies hired by employers and government programs to oversee their prescription drug benefits. CVS Health's Caremark, Cigna's Express Scripts and UnitedHealth's Optum Rx are the three largest PBMs, collectively controlling 80 percent of prescriptions in the United States.2 "PBMs have manipulated the market to enrich themselves — hiking up drug costs, cheating employers and driving small pharmacies out of business," Senator Warren said in a statement.3 We can't allow these massive corporations to continue using their size and power to control the market, raise prescription prices, force smaller pharmacies to go out of business, and put their profits above people's health. Thanks for taking action, Sources:
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Friday, December 20, 2024
Sign the petition: Break up UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna
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