The Problem: Pharmacies are closing Patients are losing access PBMs are to blame
The Problem:
Pharmacies are closing Patients are losing access PBMs are to blame
The Solution: Pass PBM Reform in Iowa
The Solution:
Pass PBM Reform in Iowa
Learn More
Your local pharmacy serves a critical need in your community. But pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are standing in the way of pharmacy access, while inflating drug prices. It is time to stand up for PBM reform to stop PBMs from making healthcare more remote and out-of-reach for Iowans.
See How Many Pharmacies Have Closed, 2019 – 2024
Watch an Explainer Video and See One-Pagers
What Iowans are Saying
96% of Iowa voters say access to health care is important to their vote in state elections.
94% of Iowa voters say the ability to choose their healthcare provider is important to their vote.
80% agree it is important that the state legislature take action on concerns about PBMs.
In The News
KCCI-TV Des Moines (March 2025): “‘It’s Not Right’: Iowans Call for Bill to Improve Prescription Drug Costs, Healthcare Access”
The Gazette (March 2025): “PBM Reform Will Reduce Costs and Benefit Rural Patients”
KTVO-TV Kirksville, Missouri (February 2025): “Iowa Pharmacists, Lawmakers Work to Combat PBM Pressure on Local Pharmacies”
KHQA-TV Hannibal, Missouri (February 2025): “Iowa Pharmacists, Lawmakers Work to Combat PBM Pressure on Local Pharmacies”
Times Republican (February 2025): “Barker Leading the Way on PBM Reform Legislation”
KCCI-TV Des Moines (February 2025): “Iowa Pharmacists Ask Lawmakers for Action as More Pharmacies Close Across the State”
WHO-TV Des Moines (February 2025): “Pharmacy Day at the Capitol Saw Lawmakers Advance PBM Reform”
WOI-TV Des Moines (February 2025): “Iowa Bill Targeting PBMs Advances, Amid Rising State Pharmacy Closure Concerns”
WQAD-TV Quad Cities (February 2025): “Iowa Bill Targeting PBMs Advances, Amid Rising State Pharmacy Closure Concerns”
Quad City Times (February 2025): “Bills Aim to Address Prescription Drug Costs, Pharmacy Closures by Regulating PBMs”
Cedar Rapids Gazette (February 2025): “Bills Aim to Address Prescription Drug Costs, Pharmacy Closures by Regulating PBMs”
Radio Iowa (February 2025): “Bill in Iowa Legislature Proposes New Rules for Pharmacy Benefit Managers”
Iowa Capital Dispatch (February 2025): “Pharmacists Ask for Lawmakers to Pass Bill Regulating Pharmacy Benefit Managers”
KGAN-TV Cedar Rapids (December 2024): “‘Alarming,’ Surge in Independent Iowa Pharmacy Closures Linked to Corporate Practices”
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (January 2025): “Pharmacy Benefit Managers are Killing Iowa Pharmacies”
The Wall Street Journal (June 2024): “Mail-Order Drugs Were Supposed to Keep Costs Down, It’s Doing the Opposite”
The New York Times (June 2024): “PBMs Inflate Prescription Drug Costs, Practices Harm Patients”
3 Axis Advisors and Washington State Pharmacy Association (June 2024): “Pharmacy Benefit Managers are Driving Up Your Prescription Costs”
Take Action
Write to your Iowa state legislators to urge PBM reform. Be sure to include your own personal story about the importance of acting now.