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Independent pharmacy owner with a strong dislike of PBMs
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CONGRATULATIONS to PUTT's incredible Board Member @upnortpharm.bsky.social! Recipient of the Minnesota Pharmacists Association Excellence in Innovation Award! 👏👏👏

#pharmacy #IndependentPharmacy #PatientsBeforeProfits #PharmSky
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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PUTT board members like @upnortpharm.bsky.social are constantly advocating for #IndependentPharmacy - in their own states and nationwide!

Bring Your Voice!! Visit TruthRx.org or contact us for more information

Keeping local pharmacies open | @thejournal.ie
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Keeping local pharmacies open
To the editor: The local pharmacy isn’t just a place to pick up prescriptions—we are a lifeline. I’ve spent years helping patients manage their medications, answering late-night phone calls, and ensur...
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April 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Huge thank you to MN Attorney General @agellison.bsky.social for signing on to this letter.

Pharmacy Benefit Managers owning pharmacies and setting reimbursement rates for themselves and their direct competitors is a glaring conflict of interest and should certainly be addressed by congress.
The National Association of Attorneys General, on behalf of a bipartisan coalition of 39 state and territory AGs, sent a letter to Congress urging them to pass an act prohibiting #PBMs from owning or operating pharmacies
#PharmSky #PBMreform

Read the Letter:
www.naag.org/press-releas...
April 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The National Association of Attorneys General, on behalf of a bipartisan coalition of 39 state and territory AGs, sent a letter to Congress urging them to pass an act prohibiting #PBMs from owning or operating pharmacies
#PharmSky #PBMreform

Read the Letter:
www.naag.org/press-releas...
April 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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NEW EPISODE ALERT‼

Association Unity, Grassroots Advocacy, & Making Independent Pharmacy Voices Heard | PBM on the Rocks podcast
player.captivate.fm/episode/6304...

#advocacy #PharmSky @hokiepharm.bsky.social @upnortpharm.bsky.social @moniquewhitney.bsky.social @brandichane.bsky.social
Association Unity, Grassroots Advocacy, & Making Independent Pharmacy Voices Heard
Quickly and easily listen to PBM on the Rocks for free!
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March 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We 💙Our Listeners!

Don't miss the newest episode of PBM on the Rocks, airing this Friday, February 14th!

@safemedicines.bsky.social @hokiepharm.bsky.social @brandichane.bsky.social @foreverlaurenyoung.bsky.social @moniquewhitney.bsky.social @upnortpharm.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Specialty steering is a one-two punch of price-gouging and self-dealing in which pharmacy benefit managers mark-up the price of generic medicines and then steer the reimbursement towards affiliated pharmacies. It raises premiums for everybody. youtube.com/shorts/18jjf...
Rep. Auchincloss on second interim FTC report on PBMs
YouTube video by Rep. Auchincloss
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January 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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After years of PBMs accusing critics of cherry-picking examples of big markups on specialty drugs, this new FTC report reveals that PBMs have been in the cherry-farming business all along. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
FTC Releases Second Interim Staff Report on Prescription Drug Middlemen
The Federal Trade Commission today published a second interim staff report on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) influence over specialty g
www.ftc.gov
January 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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President of @truthrx.bsky.social Deborah Keaveny in a great interview on the harms PBMs are doing to the healthcare infrastructure of this country.

#PharmSky

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Healthcare insurance companies blamed for 'pharmacy deserts' in Minnesota
Minnesota has lost hundreds of pharmacies in a little over a decade, creating "pharmacy deserts" that are forcing people to travel a lot farther or rely on mail service to obtain their prescription me...
www.fox9.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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PBMs’ undefeated streak in DC rolls on
December 19, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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"It's not uncommon for me to spend over 100 hours trying to get a case of return"
-- Julie Baak

"Overturned" is an excellent video by Wendell Potter
featuring the work of Julie and Claudia demanding insurers take care of patients.

open.substack.com/pub/healthca...

#Pharmsky #Medsky
Watch the New Mini Documentary "Overturned"
"Health insurance is the biggest scam in the history of the United States of America."
open.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Thank you, Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter, for everything you have done the last few years. I cannot express to you how grateful we are to have had regulators that get it.

#Pharmacy #PBMReform #PharmacistsFightBack
December 17, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Happy Holidays!

Except for you PrimeTherapeutics, no I will not waive my past, present, and future due process rights as a condition of network participation… #PBMafia tactics @truthrx.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Huge Thank You to @BettyMcCollum04 for being the first MN Representative to sponsor #HR9096 the Pharmacists Fight Back Act!
December 15, 2024 at 3:33 AM