Finally, Republicans and Democrats agree on something: hating PBMs
It’s a miracle of the modern age: both sides of the aisle are actually holding hands to take down the middleman.
You know things have gone off the rails when the red team and the blue team stop fighting each other to collectively glare at the same guy in the room. In this case, that guy is the Pharmacy Benefit Manager. These are the shadowy middlemen who decide which meds you get and how much they cost, and they've been padding their pockets while the rest of us go broke at the pharmacy counter.
States like Tennessee and Arkansas are officially sick of it and have started passing laws to rein them in. It turns out that when everyone from patients to politicians realizes they’re getting fleeced by the same invisible corporate entity, bipartisanship suddenly becomes a breeze.
Somehow, a complex mess of healthcare bureaucracy managed to become the ultimate unifier in a divided nation.
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