the only area in which providing more services such as childhood vaccines and regular blood pressure screenings is linked to better population health and more equitable outcomes.

If pharmacies refuse the contracts.has closed stores or trimmed staff as it pushes consumers to mail-order pharmacy services.

which owns one of the three leading PBMs.Senate and House committees have advanced bipartisan bills to tighten controls on the companies.PBMs sit at the center of the U.

Senate Finance Committee billswould require the Department of Health and Human Services to issue rules ensuring that PBM payments to pharmacies and other contract terms are reasonable.When youre filling the prescription.

These behemoth companies have negotiating power with drugmakers that enables them to sell a diabetes drug like Ozempic (sold under the name Wegovy for weight loss).

formerly known as Kaiser Health News (KHN).So the jury taking time means theyre not just considering the sort of violence and brutality of what weve seen.

DePape has pleaded not guilty to charges in state court of attempted murder.but when police arrived DePape told him he was going to have to take you out.

that led to DePape striking Paul Pelosi multiple times with a hammer.Jurors did not reach a verdict by 5 p.