Health Care

States push to control prescription drug prices amid rising health care costs

Pharmacy benefit managers are under the microscope.
Bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J., July 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

State lawmakers across the country are preparing a new round of legislation to address the high prescription drug prices contributing to Americans’ increasing perception that health care is becoming unaffordable. 

The push comes as federal policymakers face renewed pressure to reach bipartisan agreement on legislation imposing new regulations on pharmacy benefit managers, companies that have taken much of the blame for inflated drug prices. 

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