CAPITOL VIEW
Wed, 03/16/2022 - 5:00am
A canal, a new prison and tax cuts are taking prominent spots on the agenda for the second half of the Nebraska Legislature’s current session.
Opinion
STRAIGHT TALK FROM STEVE
Wed, 03/16/2022 - 5:00am
One of the issues which has concerned me ever since I sat on the Legislature’s HHS Committee is what to do about pharmacy benefit managers, otherwise known as PBMs. Pharmacy benefit managers are the middlemen who provide our pharmacies with prescription drugs. PBMs negotiate with drug manufacturers on behalf of government health plans, private health plans, and employer-based health insurance plans. The deals they strike with pharmaceutical companies determine the availability of drugs as well as the prices paid for drugs by 266 million Americans.
CAPITOL VIEW
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 5:00am
It has been said “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.”
Straight Talk from Steve
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 5:00am
I serve on the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee. The Appropriations Committee is charged with the task of putting together the State’s budget. In other words, we decide how the State spends its money, and this year we have a lot of extra money to spend.
CAPITOL VIEW
Wed, 03/02/2022 - 4:00am
The Legislature’s Natural Resources Committee held a rare closed-door executive session that was, according to two members, unnecessary.