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Column: Pharmacy middlemen claim to keep prescription prices low. In fact, they've cost consumers billions
In 2022, an executive of a big pharmacy middleman firm acknowledged the noxious reality of its business model: It was designed to massively overcharge customers by steering them to its affiliated or “preferred” pharmacies or its home delivery subsidiary. …