Pharmacy Times September 30, 2024
The National Community Pharmacists Association today released a new digital advertisement as part of its ongoing campaign to push lawmakers to enact pharmacy benefit manager reform, which has bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress.
In the ad, Bil and Shanon Schmidtknecht of Wisconsin speak out against PBMs after their 22-year-old son, Cole, went to get his Advair prescription refilled at a chain pharmacy early this year — a medicine he had been taking for a decade — and was told it was suddenly over $500. He had to make the decision to pay his rent or pay for his expensive medicine. A few days later, he had an asthma attack, and on the way to the ER he went...
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