Health Care

Vermont leads national effort against skyrocketing drug prices

Legislators passed bills targeting health insurers, pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers.
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)

Vermont has enacted laws that target health insurers, pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers, putting it at the forefront of a national battle against spiking prescription drug costs.

All three measures were passed with bipartisan majorities in the Democrat-controlled legislature and signed in recent weeks by Gov. Phil Scott (R).

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