For years, Louisiana patients and independent pharmacies have warned that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are driving up prescription drug costs while quietly squeezing community providers out of the health care system. Last week, Congress took a meaningful step to address those concerns—and Louisiana leaders are positioned to build on that progress. President Donald Trump  signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, which includes major PBM reform provisions authored

Conservatives have long — and rightly — raised the alarm about fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicaid system. We owe it to taxpayers to...