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Courts Keep Striking Down State Laws Aimed at Pharmacy Middlemen, and Independent Drugstores Are Watching

States keep passing laws to rein in pharmacy benefit managers, and courts keep blocking them. What it means for where you fill prescriptions.

Medical Daily · Jul 30

Democrats' key to winning the midterms

The party's healthcare affordability agenda could lower prices and put the Senate in play

Salon · Jul 16

States seek to lower drug prices by targeting the companies that manage them for health plans

Legislators across the U.S. are trying to lower prescription costs by reining in big companies that handle drug coverage for health insurers

The Independent UK · Jun 27

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Billionaire Mark Cuban Says America’s Drug Pricing System Makes Patients Pay the Highest Price, ‘Make It Make Sense. It Doesn’t.’

In Senate testimony, Cuban compared pharmacy benefit managers to Amazon’s control over online sellers, arguing that PBMs use their power over formularies to keep list prices high while patients, employers, pharmacies, and taxpayers absorb the damage.

Barchart · Jun 9

Forced to sell medications at a loss, rural Texas pharmacies seek new survival tactics

Independent rural pharmacists are starting other businesses or selling baby shower gifts to keep their stores operating. Pharmacy deserts affect 4 million Texans.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 26

Trump promised lower drug prices. Here's how Congress virtually guaranteed the opposite

Mark Cuban says we wouldn't pay for potato chips like this. Congress is complicating things even more.

Fortune · Mar 4

TrumpRx is here and it helps, though a bit less than advertised

Trump's Republican Party continues to shift toward government market interventionism.

Fortune · Feb 11

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Mark Cuban on the $38 trillion national debt and the absurdity of U.S. healthcare: we wouldn't pay for potato chips like this

"Can you imagine if a Pringles distributor paid full retail to Pringles and then sold to grocery stores for full retail, and then the grocery stores had to wait for a rebate?"

Fortune · Jan 6

Unmask The Lie: The Reason Your Local Pharmacy Always Runs Out Of Meds

Walk into your local pharmacy, and you may find the same story repeated: the medication you rely on is “out of stock.” For seniors managing...

Saving Advice · Nov 28, 2025

Mark Cuban says Trump’s new drug platform could succeed if it forces pharma managers to change: ‘If that happens, Trump gets all the credit’

Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs, which he founded in 2022, similarly provides direct-to-consumer discounted pharmaceuticals.

Fortune · Oct 2, 2025

Texas Sues Eli Lilly For Alleged Kickback Scheme Involving Mounjaro, Zepbound

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE:LLY), accusing the pharmaceutical giant of bribing medical providers to promote its most profitable drugs, including the widely used GLP-1 medications Mounjaro and Zepbound for diabetes and weight loss.

Benzinga · Aug 13, 2025

Reform Refill: Has Scott Wiener Convinced Gov. Newsom to Rein in Prescription Middlemen?

Why a state senator may finally win his battle against powerful pharmacy benefit managers.

Capital & Main · Jul 24, 2025

How Democrats can pull off a win now

There is no need to wait for the next election

Salon · May 31, 2025

Trump has promised to 'knock out' pharmacy benefit managers. How the drug middlemen became a $557 billion industry that its customers love to hate

The industry says it keeps down the cost of prescription drugs, but critics say it's profiting at the expense of patients.

Fortune · Jan 21, 2025

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