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New HHS director blames PBMs, insurance plans for high drug prices

Alex Azar isnt likely to shy away from the topic of sky-high medication prices -- but it may be insurers and drug plans that feel the heat as much as his former industry.

By Anna Edney, Jared S. Hopkins, Natasha Rausch | Updated on November 15, 2017

The drug executive President Donald Trump has picked to lead the Department Health and Human Services isn’t likely to shy away from the topic of sky-high medication prices — but it may be insurers and drug plans that feel the heat as much as his former industry.

Trump’s pick, former Eli Lilly & Co. executive Alex Azar has talked about drug prices during interviews, speeches and panel appearances before leaving Lilly in January and in the months after. His remarks have paralleled a common industry argument, that it’s other parts of the pharmaceutical supply chain that bear a large share of the blame for U.S. outrage over drug costs.

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