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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, I'm going to try to unravel some of the mystery behind the huge unseen players

in the prescription drug system, pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs.

Do they help control drug prices as they say, keep them low, or actually make medicine

more expensive and cause deadly delays?

Some of you already know that some of my favourite stories to do take a topic that's

hard for a lot of people to understand at first blush, or maybe it isn't well explained

and easily accessible places.

Well PBMs are one of those topics pharmacy benefit managers.

I had long heard them referred to as I did stories over the years about prescription

drugs, drug prices, the system, the problems.

But when people would try to tell me more or I'd ask questions, it was a little off the

main topic at the moment and it seemed really complicated.

But I kept the information in the back of my mind as I came to realize how big and important

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