Whether through the Labor Department rulemaking process, the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters rule or another regulatory vehicle, the Trump administration must close the essential health benefits loophole to prohibit insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from profiteering and ensure that co-pay assistance benefits the patients it is intended to help. The administration has shown it is willing to take on pharmacy benefit managers. Until we take concrete action to close the essential health benefits loophole, billions of dollars will continue to be diverted from patients who desperately need them.
Trump must seize the chance to make health care affordable
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