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CVS is rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine program for long-term care facility staff and residents. CVS Health Executive Vice President Tom Moriarty with more.
The nation s drugstores and groceries are racing to hire thousands of pharmacists and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccines to the masses.
Pharmacies big and small were laying off pharmacists as recently as summer, as the profession s outlook grew dim. Now some of those same pharmacies and supermarkets are making public pleas, reaching out to retired workers and offering signing bonuses. Several retail pharmacy chains, including CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., have agreed to work with the U.S. government to serve as Covid-19 vaccination sites.
In a ruling that could pave the way for increased regulations by states such as Ohio, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge of a 2015 Arkansas law putting restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers. We have overwhelming evidence that the PBM marketplace is highly dysfunctional and exceedingly costly, said Antonio Ciaccia, former lobbyist for the Ohio Pharmacists Association who is now with 3 Axis Advisors, a company set up to expose drug-pricing irregularities. With the industry problems growing worse, it is encouraging to see the Supreme Court assert the authority of states to control their own fates, rather than leaving their prescription drug costs and access in the hands of a largely unchecked multibillion-dollar industry.