Recent debates about drug pricing have tended to focus on manufacturers and patients, but Doug Collins is among the few legislators looking at the middlemen.
Collins, a Republican congressman from Georgia, railed against the country’s three major pharmacy benefit managers in an interview with STAT, expressing his desire for a drug-pricing debate that centers on what he views as the true power centers instead of “Pharma bro” and the push to allow drug-price negotiation under Medicare Part D.
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