Demand Progress

Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing a bipartisan bill that would break up giant health care corporations like UnitedHealth and CVS.

If passed, the Patients Before Monopolies Act would force big health corporations to each sell their respective pharmacies within three years. That would put an end to corporate inflation of medication prices at pharmacies.¹

It’s a clear win for consumers and patients, and we need to build the bipartisan support behind this bill.

Sign the petition: Tell lawmakers to support Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s bipartisan bill to break up big health corporations like UnitedHealth and CVS!

Senator Warren is targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — companies hired by employers and government programs to oversee their prescription drug benefits. CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx are the three largest PBMs, collectively controlling 80 percent of prescriptions in the United States.²

“PBMs have manipulated the market to enrich themselves — hiking up drug costs, cheating employers and driving small pharmacies out of business,” Senator Warren said in a statement.³

We can’t allow these massive corporations to continue using their size and power to control the market, raise prescription prices, force smaller pharmacies to go out of business, and put their profits above people’s health.

Add your name: Tell lawmakers to support Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s bipartisan bill to break up big health corporations.

Sources:

1. New York Times, “Bipartisan Lawmakers Seek to Break Up Giant Health Care Conglomerates,” December 11, 2024.
2. Ibid.
3. Office of Senator Elizabeth Warren, “Warren, Hawley, Harshbarger, Auchincloss Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Cut Drug Costs, Rein in Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs),” December 11, 2024.