Editorial: Another layer of bureaucracy isn’t the answer for beleaguered pharmacies, Gov. Pritzker

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Editorial: Another layer of bureaucracy isn’t the answer for beleaguered pharmacies, Gov. Pritzker

In Gov. JB Pritzker’s Illinois budget address on Feb. 19, he lamented the decline of small-town independent pharmacies like those of Michelle Dyer, who abruptly closed three stores in rural Macoupin County during 2022, transferring their prescriptions to Walgreens. As Pritzker described it, the reason for Dyer’s abrupt shutdown wasn’t competition from rival stores and online pharmacies, for instance, but rather the actions of pharmacy benefit ma…