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Dear Colleague, NCPA's highest priority goal to change the pharmacy payment model has meant, for the most part, fighting the one-sided business practices of the health insurer-owned PBMs. If there's one thing that sports teaches you, to paraphrase the Olympic champion and WWII veteran, Louis Zamperini, it's that we must fight to the finish if we're going to succeed. There is no giving up.

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Tune in at 2 p.m. ET today to see the testimony of Joe Moose at the House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on the topic of why anticompetitive and consolidated markets are making health care unaffordable. Moose, co-owner of Moose Pharmacy (with seven locations in North Carolina), will testify about the PBM stranglehold on health care, as well as on the ability of independent pharmacists to thrive as anchors for their communities.

A story in the Tuesday edition of The Wall Street Journal reported that pharmacies that dispense COVID therapeutics pills are “pushing back and some are threatening to halt supplies if they don’t get more funds to cover the gap.” The commercial firms are paying pharmacies as low as a penny to about $10 for filling each prescription, according to pharmacists and pharmacy-transaction records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.