"The busier you are, the more money you lose," points out MNIndys Vice President and owner of St. Paul Corner Drug, John Hoeschen, RPh, during a recent interview with Twin Cities Business Magazine alongside his daughter and MNIndys Executive Director, Hildie Hoeschen, RN.

In a 59-18 vote largely along party lines, the Assembly passed the Democratic-sponsored bill to rein in pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, a measure supporters say would level the playing field for community pharmacies and give patients more choice in where they get their drugs.

Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that would block certain companies from owning a pharmacy while also owning a pharmacy benefit manager and health insurance issuer.

On January 10, 2024, 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht of Appleton, Wisconsin, went to his big-box pharmacy and was told that a preventative asthma inhaler he had relied on for years was no longer covered by his insurer.

Families are still choosing between medicine and meals, and new policies — including Medicaid work requirements — threaten to undo hard-won gains of the ACA.

Nearly 50 million people in the United States now live in so-called ‘pharmacy deserts,’ areas with limited access to a local pharmacy