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What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone

  • Written by James B. Rebitzer, Wexler Professor of Management, Economics and Public Policy, Boston University
What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyonePBMs control which drugs insurers cover, for how much and for whom.cagkansayin/iStock via Getty Images Plus

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