Stephen E. Littlejohn

The merger announcement from Walgreens Boots Alliance and Rite Aid throws up an interesting question, writes Stephen Littlejohn. Will Walgreens be purveyor focused on retail sales or provider engaged with a transforming U.S. healthcare system?

Scale has its limits, as the nation’s two largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), Express Scripts and CVS Caremark, are discovering. Stephen Littlejohn reports.

The clocks are ticking for Express Scripts, writes Stephen E. Littlejohn. Having achieved formidable “size and scale,” how will the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager synchronize with value-based health care?

A recent poll reported that most Americans think drug prices are unreasonably high, but that 76% of Republicans prefer market competition over government regulation to lower prices. Stephen Littlejohn imagines what Donald Trump would say on the matter.