RESOURCES
This fight is already underway — in courtrooms, legislatures, and boardrooms — but it’s going to take all of us to win. Whether you’re a healthcare worker, lawmaker, advocate, or just a patient fed up with the state of healthcare, here are some resources to help you get smart about how conflicts of interest are ruining healthcare.
PUBLICATIONS & ADvocacy
LETTERS:
Letter to the FTC
re: McKesson’s and Cardinal Health’s proposed specialty practice acquisitions
LITIGATION
FEDERAL LEGISLATION
BIPARTISAN BILLS:
The Patients Before Monopolies (PBM) Act — Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) & Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) & Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)
Would force health insurers and PBMs to divest their pharmacy businesses, eliminating the structural conflicts of interest that have driven independent pharmacies out of business, inflated drug prices, and harmed patient care.
STATE TOOLKITS & RESOURCES
MODEL LEGISLATION:
OTHER RESOURCES AND MEDIA:
Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter’s remarks on the platformization of health care
The Guardian: US urged to ‘think bigger’ on healthcare amid Trump onslaught on sector
The Economic Populist: Congress Shouldn’t Let Healthcare Middlemen Open Another Legal Loophole