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New Jersey lawmakers discuss pharmacy benefit managers' influence on drug costs

  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "We've got to look at it holistically in order to get a strong and sustaining solution," said Laura Widdell, NJCA Health Care Program Director.
49% : PCMA Assistant Vice President Heather Cascone said in a statement in part: "As policymakers in New Jersey consider proposals to intervene in the market, we urge them to understand the PBM industry is not waiting for government mandates to meet evolving market needs.
43% : PCMA looks forward to continuing to work with the Legislature to explore policy solutions that will actually lower prescription drug costs for patients, employers, and unions in the State."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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