In the news: PBM legislation inside a new gun bill

Many Americans across the political spectrum are clamoring for federal action on guns in the wake of a mass shooting at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary schoola Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store and hundreds of other places.

But buried in a bipartisan compromise hashed out by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday is an unrelated provision they might not be so happy about.

The gun bill would enhance the exemption drug middlemen working with Medicare have from the federal “Anti-Kickback Statute.” Read more.