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PBM Breakup, Reference Drug Pricing & a Doctor in Every County

Break Pharmacy Benefit Manager markups, cap essential drug prices, and staff healthcare deserts.

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Proposed · not introduced

0 / 6 milestones

  1. 01 · Pending

    Introduced

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  2. 02 · Pending

    Committee review

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  3. 03 · Pending

    House passage

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  4. 04 · Pending

    Senate passage

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  5. 05 · Pending

    Final text agreed

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  6. 06 · Pending

    Becomes law

    The legislation is signed into law or enacted over a veto.

Latest progress

This Student Plan proposal has not been introduced. No congressional passage milestones are complete.

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Official record · awaiting introduction

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What the bill does

  1. 1

    Eliminate PBM middleman markups.

  2. 2

    Cap essential prescription drugs — insulin, inhalers, oncology treatments — at international reference prices.

  3. 3

    Full medical-school tuition forgiveness for physicians, nurses, and mental-health practitioners who serve five years in rural or urban healthcare deserts.

Why it matters

Adapts Serbia's "A Physician in Every Village." Rural healthcare systems anchor many target red districts; drug prices hurt everyone.