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Susan Wild: “They find that when they go to the local pharmacy with their…”

Featuring: Susan Wild, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 7

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Wild Presses Witness On Medicine Shortages: ‘Why Can PBMs Fill Scripts When Local Pharmacies Can’t?’

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And yet what I've been told by a number of my constituents, and by the way, I'm in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania 7, the Lehigh Valley, but it's probably typical across the country is that They find that when they go to the local pharmacy with their script and the pharmacy says, I'm sorry, we're out of that medication, we're not going to be able to fill it until we don't know when. They are then advised by their insurance company that if they get their medications by mail order, they will likely be able to fill it. (00:00–01:30)

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Asserts that local pharmacies are frequently unable to fill prescriptions due to medication shortages.

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