#pharmacy-benefit-managers

#pharmacy-benefit-managers

It would expand association health plans, which allow small businesses to band together and purchase coverage, impose new transparency requirements on pharmacy benefit managers aimed at lowering drug costs, and fund ACA payments known as cost-sharing reductions. The Senate, which gridlocked on an ACA subsidy extension and competing GOP plan, isn't expected to take up the House package. But some of the ideas could resurface in late January, when Congress faces another deadline to keep the government funded.

And now we're sitting here and we're listening to nonsense about healthcare. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle [are] sitting here saying, Well, you guys aren't doing anything about the massive, expensive cost of healthcare. Why do you think it is expensive?! Because you literally cut a deal with insurance companies to run healthcare. You think that's gonna run wild?

He said that the administration has "some great people working on this project," but he would "give the program, and what we know, as of today, a grade of B." "Why not an A? The stock prices of PBMs didn't get crushed," wrote Cuban. "Which means, so far, no one expects much change for them. Which they expect they will make up lost revenues from patients, companies, and other payers elsewhere."