RIVERTON, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The cost of prescription drugs was the aspect of the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act the two U.S. Senators of Illinois promoted at a Springfield-area visit Tuesday.
Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin discussed how the bill is meant to keep healthcare costs down.
Riverton’s Curry’s Family Pharmacy hosted both U.S. senators Tuesday. Pharmacy benefit managers, which have grown rapidly as a kind of middleman and seizing the mail-order prescription market, have the lawmakers’ attention.
“I have co-sponsored the PBM Transparency Act, which is going to look at the practices the PBM employs, to include the clawbacks of the cost of prescription medication that are really harmful to independent pharmacies," said Duckworth.
“More transparency!”, Durbin chimed in. “Let’s find out what their role is and whether it’s a legitimate role that really makes America healthier and prescribing drugs safer.”
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