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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Iowa lege passes a bill that would require PBMs to use one reimbursement list, pay pharmacies a $10.68 per-script dispensing feel. By Robin Opsahl. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/05/12/i...
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Iowa House sends bill regulating pharmacy benefit managers to Gov. Kim Reynolds • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Pharmacists and supporters said the bill will help rural pharmacies stay in business, but opponents say it could lead to higher drug costs.
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Iowa passes laws intended to limit the powers of big pharmacy middlemen to use arbitrary pricing and to steer patients to affiliated pharmacies. By Robin Opsahl of the Ohio Capital Dispatch. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/28/b...
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Bill regulating pharmacy benefit managers passes Iowa Senate • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The Iowa Senate passed the measure Monday which supporters said will help rural pharmacies in the state stay in business.
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scottsuttell.bsky.social @scottsuttell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Even before President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of tariffs on April 2, three-fourths of businesses surveyed by the Cleveland Fed said they would have to raise prices in response. Some said they already were. Via @martyschladen.bsky.social. www.crainscleveland.com/politics-pol...
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Businesses say Trump tariffs will raise prices and decrease demand, Cleveland Fed survey shows
Businesses are worried about passing tariff consequences on to consumers.
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
When Ohio took control of its Medicaid drug benefits program from conflicted intermediaries, they were able to pay pharmacy providers more and still save up to $140 million. When you trade conflicts for transparency, you win big. @martyschladen.bsky.social
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Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen, paid pharmacies more and saved $140 million, report says • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio Department of Medicaid department in 2022 gave powerful prescription drug middlemen the boot and created a new system. The result: Fees paid to pharmacies were boosted more than 1,200% while ...
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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
From @martyschladen.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com - how Trump is revoking legal status from immigrants WHO ARE PAYING TAXES in order to be able to deport them. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/14/m...
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Migrants in Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere scramble as Trump changes the rules • Ohio Capital Journal
Thousands of migrants to Ohio and and other states found themselves in a dangerous state of limbo last week as their permission to be here was suddenly revoked. Court challenges are being raised, but ...
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Louisiana Illuminator @lailluminator.com · 02/04/2025
As Trump tries to fire them, antitrust officials continue to investigate the medical sector. @martyschladen.bsky.social w/ @ohiocapitaljournal.com reports ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/02/a...
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As Trump tries to fire them, antitrust officials continue to investigate the medical sector • Ohio Capital Journal
President Trump is trying to fire two members of the Federal Trade Commission. But on Monday night they said their work to root out anticompetitive practices by health care companies continues.
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
PBM spread pricing is sold as a risk mitigation strategy for plan sponsors. In practice, it is almost always used a mechanism to increase financial risk for plan sponsors. Few know better than @martyschladen.bsky.social 👇
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Ohio pharmacy closures lead to fears of medicine deserts, especially in rural areas • Ohio Capital Journal
The number of retail pharmacies in Ohio last year dropped below 2,000, and it’s worsening fears that especially in low-income rural areas, people will find it even harder to get medicine, vaccines, an...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
More than 50 Trump protests planned in Ohio this weekend, more than 1,000 across the United States.
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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I had a "radical" idea. What if we made the immigration system work like US Americans think it does? 😳 Reporting by @martyschladen.bsky.social + research from @celindalake.bsky.social ohioimmigrant.org/2025/03/07/2... #OhioIsHome
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20 years of taxes - what could be more American? - Ohio Immigrant Alliance
“In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Immigrants know this intrinsically. President Trump’s immigration policy is pulling the rug out from under people who are currently document...
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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"What’s more American than working for 20 years + paying taxes?” @celindalake.bsky.social NEW @martyschladen.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com -- what if we had an immigration system that works the way people think it does? It would be a game-changer. 📖 👀 ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/05/t...
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The way people think immigration works and the way it really does • Ohio Capital Journal
Experts say many questions American have about immigration are based on misconceptions about how the immigration system currently works in the United States. They say the reality instead is an antiqua...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
If the immigration system just worked the way people think it does, we'd all be a lot better off, experts say. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/05/t...
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The way people think immigration works and the way it really does • Ohio Capital Journal
Experts say many questions American have about immigration are based on misconceptions about how the immigration system currently works in the United States. They say the reality instead is an antiqua...
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Since 2015: 📈 The population of Ohio increased 2.2%. 📈 Nationally, estimates show the number of retail pharmacy prescriptions increased 11.4%. 📉 The number of community pharmacies in Ohio decreased 15.8%. You get what you pay for. @martyschladen.bsky.social
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An alarming trend: Ohio pharmacy closures spike, openings lag • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio's pharmacy closures have spiked in recent years, and the stores been closing in the communities that can least afford to lose them, according to a new data tool released by the Ohio Board of Phar...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
21 WFMJ 's Kaitlyn McCarthy digs into JobsOhio. Asks why way more incentives go to exploding Columbus than stagnating Youngstown. Again begs the question: Is JO giving billions in what used to be public money to corporations to do what they were already going to? www.wfmj.com/story/524385...
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WATCHDOG: Current, former Ohio Lawmakers questioning JobsOhio
They claim this is to give them greater flexibility to work with companies to attract investment. But is it working? Some longtime critics are saying the state is not getting its money's worth.
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“The lawsuits against the companies — CVS Health, United Health Group and Cigna-Express Scripts — accuse them of excluding cheaper forms of insulin from the formularies in pursuit of ever higher payments from drugmakers.” @martyschladen.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com
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Pressure builds on prescription drug middlemen as the companies see stocks and profits rise • Ohio Capital Journal
A wide group of plaintiffs in a national insulin pricing lawsuit are seeking to add a group of shadowy companies set up by health conglomerates as they argue that two layers of prescription drug middl...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Had a great discussion on the Common Sense Ohio podcast last week. Forget politics. Let's take a skeptical look at what officials are doing what used to be our money, and whether we're getting what they say we are. player.captivate.fm/episode/7cc7...
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Analyzing JobsOhio: Is It a Secret Monopoly Funded by Ohio's Public Liquor Franchise?
Quickly and easily listen to Common Sense Ohio for free!
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
People want Trump to deport criminals... so he told the people at Homeland Security who are investigating drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers to focus on deporting the undocumented instead. Seems to me people should know. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Thousands of DHS agents shift to deportation instead of drugs, weapons and human trafficking
Redeploying Homeland Security Investigations agents is part of a broader Trump effort. But some fear many serious transnational crimes will go unprobed.
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Council on Foreign Relations fellow and Georgetown professor Charles Kupchan just now: "J.D. Vance's speech (in Germany) was in some ways bone-chilling." Trump doesn't have a strategy on Ukraine, just an impulse. "There's no hymn sheet."
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Everybody knows the American medical system if broken. Now there's a call for a big, big fix. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/20/a...
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Antitrust group, Ohioans issue call to 'break up big medicine' • Ohio Capital Journal
Their message may come as zero surprise to the vast majority of Americans. But on Wednesday, advocates, experts and practitioners said the nation’s health care system is badly broken and dramatic meas...
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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 19/02/2025
American history through another lens Commentary from @martyschladen.bsky.social michiganadvance.com/2025/02/19/a...
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American history through another lens • Michigan Advance
Many are terrified to take a new look at our culture’s stories through another’s eyes. Just look at all the fake frenzy over “DEI” and the many, many attempts to hide the glaring fact that dominant, w...
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scottsuttell.bsky.social @scottsuttell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Ohio’s pharmacy closures have spiked in recent years, and the stores have closed in the communities that can least afford to lose them, according to a new data tool from the Ohio Board of Pharmacy. Via @martyschladen.bsky.social of @ohiocapitaljournal.com. www.crainscleveland.com/health-care/...
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An alarming trend: Ohio pharmacy closures spike, openings lag
Ohio’s pharmacy closures have spiked in recent years, and the stores have been closing in the communities that can least afford to lose them, according to a new data tool released by the Ohio Board of...
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"By whatever name, the inflated list prices and resulting Manufacturer Payments are a quid pro quo for inclusion and favorable placement on the PBMs’ formularies.” @martyschladen.bsky.social
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Unions file suit against drug middlemen, insulin makers on behalf of thousands, Ohio, elsewhere • Ohio Capital Journal
Unions that provide health benefits to nearly a half-million workers — including many in Ohio — have filed nearly identical lawsuits against the biggest insulin makers and against the pharmacy middlem...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Why did people die in a tragic mid-air collision over the Potomac? DEI, of course. Duh! Expect much more of this nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
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President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major e...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
YouGov Just 3 in 10 Britons (30%) say that it was right for the UK to vote to leave the EU v 55% who say it was wrong….the lowest proportion of the public saying that Britain was right to vote to leave since the pollster began asking this question after the referendum apple.news/AyI9jhc2eQaK...
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Number of Britons who think Brexit was right decision hits new low, new YouGov poll shows — The Independent
On the five-year anniversary of Britain’s EU exit, new YouGov polling lays bare damning public sentiment on the decision
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
OH AG Yost said it's safe for some with temporary protected status to return to their home countries. He didn't name any. Ohio AG and 17 others question protections for immigrants from dangerous home countries ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/27/o...
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Ohio AG and 17 others question protections for immigrants from dangerous home countries • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 17 other Republican attorneys general are questioning the temporary protected status for immigrants from 17 distressed countries.
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This is a hugely important issue, and it seems to be gathering momentum. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/17/a...
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Amid federal uncertainty, advocates and officials highlight state-level antitrust fights • Ohio Capital Journal
It's unclear whether Donald Trump will continue the Biden administration's focus on antitrust enforcement when he again becomes president Monday. But advocates and state officials say that regardless ...
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
How a duty to spend wisely on worker benefits could loosen PBMs’ grip on drug prices @mcuban.bsky.social @costplusdrugs.com @kffhealthnews.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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How a Duty To Spend Wisely on Worker Benefits Could Loosen PBMs’ Grip on Drug Prices - KFF Health News
As criticism of pharmacy benefit managers heats up, fear of lawsuits is driving some big employers to drop the “Big Three” PBMs — or force them to change.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care. But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix. The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
ICYMI: Pharmacy benefit managers really not looking good when it comes expensive cancer, HIV drugs, the Federal Trade Commission says in a report issued Tuesday. Regulator accuses drug middlemen of wild price hikes, possibly steering business to themselves ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/15/r...
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Regulator accuses drug middlemen of wild price hikes, possibly steering business to themselves • Ohio Capital Journal
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday released an interim report saying that powerful drug middlemen marked up drugs for cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other serious maladies far over the goin...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Ohio Gov. DeWine supports repeal of remaining scandal-ridden FirstEnergy legislation ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/14/o...
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Ohio Gov. DeWine supports repeal of remaining scandal-ridden FirstEnergy legislation • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine supports repealing a remaining aspect of corrupt legislation that forces ratepayers to spend hundreds of millions per year on an out-of-state and unprofitable coal plant.
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
In Ohio, we're again handing out lavish tax incentives, this time to big tech companies to build data centers. And once again the companies — desperate for more capacity for AI — seemed likely to build them anyway. I'm told Indiana is doing the same. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/13/s...
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Serious concerns raised over proliferation of Ohio data centers • Ohio Capital Journal
As Ohio entices yet more data centers, a watchdog group is raising important questions about whether that's good for average Ohioans, noting the relatively small number of jobs created and the extreme...
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Antonio Ciaccia @aciaccia.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
U.S. district judge in opioid proceedings slams pharmacy middlemen, says they’re trying to stall @martyschladen.bsky.social ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/10/u...
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U.S. district judge in opioid proceedings slams pharmacy middlemen, says they're trying to stall • Ohio Capital Journal
The U.S. district judge in Cleveland, Ohio handling a galaxy of claims stemming from the prescription opioid epidemic on Monday reiterated his belief that powerful drug middlemen are trying to stall c...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The Atlantic: New studies say that while Walmart might offer lower prices, the savings are swamped by the extent to which they make communities poorer — that's due both to the low wages they pay, and because they drive out local small business. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman says we don't have enough money to fund public schools. But last year, he found $1 billion mostly to subsidize families who were already sending their kids to private schools. By @susantebben.bsky.social ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/09/p...
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Public school advocates take issue with new Ohio Speaker's claim that funding model 'unsustainable' • Ohio Capital Journal
As Ohio’s 136th General Assembly begins, the newly minted House Speaker has already taken a stand on education, saying spending for the state's public school funding model is “unsustainable.”
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
72% of homeowners who sign up with an electricity telemarketer end up paying more than staying with regular supplier, says new Ohio research. bit.ly/4j5Wktc @martyschladen.bsky.social @kmkowalski.bsky.social @ohiostatenews.bsky.social @thejusticedepart.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org
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So-called electricity competition in Ohio is usually a bad deal for consumers, study shows • Ohio Capital Journal
In Ohio's deregulated electricity retail market, salespeople often say they can get you a better deal than you're getting. But an investigation by Ohio State researchers concluded the deals they offer...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Health insurer blatantly puts profit ahead of care. Here's a smoking gun. Minnesota-based UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical autism treatment minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/02/m...
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Minnesota-based UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical autism treatment • Minnesota Reformer
Optum is “pursuing market-specific action plans” to limit children’s access to the treatment
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scottsuttell.bsky.social @scottsuttell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A federal judge has tapped two Ohio pensions to lead a class-action suit by 7 entities accusing the business-information platform ZoomInfo of making false statements about the health of the business. Via @martyschladen.bsky.social of @ohiocapitaljournal.com. www.crainscleveland.com/banking-fina...
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Ohio pensions named lead plaintiffs in $76 million fraud suit
A federal judge has tapped two Ohio pensions to lead a class-action suit by seven entities accusing the business-information platform ZoomInfo of making false statements about the health of the busine...
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martyschladen.bsky.social @martyschladen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
As Trump tanks spending deal, pharmacists bemoan possible loss of middleman reforms ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/19/a...
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As Trump tanks spending deal, pharmacists bemoan possible loss of middleman reforms • Ohio Capital Journal
A vast array of legislative priorities are in doubt after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk worked to sink a bipartisan deal to fund the government, including a deal to rein in pharmacy drug ...
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