{"id":111509,"date":"2020-12-10T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T02:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=111509"},"modified":"2020-12-10T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T02:13:56","slug":"attorney-general-on-unanimous-u-s-supreme-court-decision-upholding-states-rights-to-regulate-the-rising-cost-of-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=111509","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General on Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court Decision Upholding States\u2019 Rights to Regulate the Rising Cost of Prescription Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA…Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a statement today on the unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court in\u00a0Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association<\/em>\u00a0that upholds the rights of states to regulate and address the rising cost of prescription drugs. In March, the attorney general\u00a0led a bipartisan coalition of 46 attorneys general<\/a>\u00a0in filing an\u00a0amicus brief in the Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0supporting the state of Arkansas\u2019 position that federal law does not prevent states from regulating pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). In the brief, the coalition also argued\u00a0that regulation of the prescription drug market, including PBMs, is a critical tool states use to protect residents and address the access and affordability of prescription drugs. The Court agreed that federal law does not preempt these widespread and important state regulations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cStates are on the frontlines of the fight to keep prescription drug prices down and make them more accessible to those who rely on them,\u201d\u00a0said Attorney General Becerra<\/b>. \u201cWe are happy the Supreme Court recognized today that states must be able to regulate PBMs, the pharmaceutical middlemen who manipulate drug prices and access. Today\u2019s decision will ensure states are able to improve prescription drug marketplace transparency and protect access to affordable medication.\u201d<\/p>\n

PBMs act as\u00a0intermediaries\u00a0between pharmacies, drug manufacturers, health insurance plans, and consumers. They develop and maintain prescription drug formularies, contract with pharmacies, negotiate discounts with drug manufacturers, and process and pay prescription drug claims, and in this position, they have exercised their market power in a manner that harms consumers.<\/p>\n

In submitting the amicus brief in March, Attorney General Becerra was joined by the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

A copy of the decision can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sacramento, CA…Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued a statement today on the unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court in\u00a0Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association\u00a0that upholds the rights of states to regulate and address the rising cost of prescription drugs. In March, the attorney general\u00a0led a bipartisan coalition of 46 attorneys general\u00a0in filing an\u00a0amicus brief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/xyz_becerra.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}