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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Reacting to President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services, The National Community Pharmacists Association stated on behalf of CEO B. Douglas Hoey. Congratulating the nominee, it says the organization is "encouraged" by his commitment to taking on big business in the name of citizens and small business.
Thorvardur de Shong
According to the NCPA, the incoming secretary should begin his tenure by continuing the fight against large corporations. At the top of the list should be PBMs and insurers because of their "unfair, anticompetitive business practices" administering Medicare Part D for millions of seniors across the country. These practices threaten the 19,000 independent pharmacies in America, leading to the emergence of "pharmacy deserts."
The statement in full:
“We congratulate Kennedy on his nomination. We are encouraged by his lifelong willingness to take on the biggest and most powerful corporations on behalf of citizens and small businesses. We are eager to work with him and his team to educate them about how one of the country’s most important public health assets – the 19,000 independent pharmacies across the country – are in great jeopardy because of the unfair, anticompetitive business practices of PBMs and insurers that administer Medicare Part D for millions of seniors. Those pharmacies are disappearing, and pharmacy deserts are forming, because of the business practices of the PBMs and Big Insurance, and we very much hope Kennedy and the Trump administration will support our effort to rein in these bad actors.”
