Preventing prevention
…diverse as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As lawyer-journalist Jeffrey Toobin recently noted in the New York Review of Books, “The…
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Battery Storage Growth to Fill Supply Gaps for States
…fast buildout in battery storage capacity, the state’s Energy Commission said this week. Since 2020, California has added 18.5 gigawatts of “new resources” as Bloomberg put it in a report on the…
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies
…Main Street pharmacies. Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies, Federal Trade Commission Over the past 20 years, pharmacy benefit services have become…
Medicare Advantage and Consolidation’s New Frontier – The Danger of “United Healthcare” for All
…behavior. Although 2023 merger guidelines from the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are more skeptical of vertical consolidation than previous guidelines, the lack of precedent for blocking such…
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are Hiking the Price of Drugs
…Premium for Drug Pricing Irregularity, we begin to see the analysis how pricing may not representative. ~~~~~~ The Federal Trade Commission in a report released Tuesday, drug middlemen known as pharmacy…
Can you reduce your risk of dementia?
…we can control for ourselves, regardless of our genome makeup. “The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care has raised the number of modifiable risk factors definitively linked to…
FTC to Launch Inquiry Into Higher Grocery Prices and Surveillance Pricing
…and making it easier for Americans to cancel online subscriptions they don’t want. Chair Khan announced that she will ask the Commission to launch an inquiry into grocery prices in…
Pharmacy Benefit Managers Overpay Their Own Pharmacies to the Detriment of Insurers and Taxpayers
…Trade Commission (FTC). Suzie Jing of the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, presented interim results from the agency’s report on PBMs at a commission meeting Thursday. “We see evidence PBMs…
Catching Up on Climate Risk Research
…Transition Risks on Financial Stability. A Systemic Risk Approach,” authors from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission find that inflation is one of the three main drivers of climate…
Day 2 of the Courts Review of the FTC v Kroger Merger
…Pricing Strategies and Market Control Scrutinized in Day 2 of Merger Hearing, Economic Liberties Portland, OR — After the second day of the Federal Trade Commission v. Kroger-Albertsons hearing in the U.S….