After Hours: The Powerful, Unseen Middlemen Impacting Your Drug Prices (From the Archives)

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, Full Measure, News Commentary

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are powerful, unseen middlemen impacting drug prices in a big way. The debate is over whether they’re saving you money or costing you money— and possibly costing lives.

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0:30.7	Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.
0:33.6	I hope you enjoy this special from the Archives edition of Full Measure After Hours. Hi everybody Cheryl Atkinson
0:47.7	Cheryl Atkinson here.
0:48.7	Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.
0:52.2	Today I'm going to try to unravel some of the mystery behind the huge
0:56.0	unseen players in the prescription drug system, pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs.
1:02.6	Do they help control drug prices as they say keep them low?
1:06.8	Or actually make medicine more expensive
1:09.2	and cause deadly delays.
1:19.4	Some of you already know that some of my favorite stories to do take a topic that's hard for a lot of people to understand at first blush
1:26.7	or maybe it isn't well explained and easily accessible places
1:31.1	Well, PBMs are one of those topics, pharmacy benefit managers.
1:35.6	I had long heard them referred to as I did stories over the years about
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