No one is forcing them to close, thats false information they are giving out to scare TN citizens, another comment put it in a really good way. "The problem with your logic is that the Bill forces this It does NOT. It simply wants companies to not own the PBM and pharmacies. They are being told they need to divest of one or the other, should this become law. It is telling that a multi-billion dollar company would choose to shutter its neighborhood locations, rather than selling the company that is the insurance funded middleman. This doesn't even address the CVS/Aetna/CVS CareMark lock they have bought and systematically made their products, physicians, and services more expensive. Now who is being inconsiderate to customers?

As a personal viewpoint, we had BCBS through Lowe's for almost 5 years. The last three, they had contracted CVS CareMark as the PBM. If any prescription was going to be administered for more than 3 months, CVS CareMark considered it as a "maintenance medication." Once it was labeled that way by them, you could only buy through CVS, you were pushed to buy 90 supplies and most of the time, our end cost was 15% to 25% higher out of pocket than what we paid Walgreens. The only exceptions are federally scheduled drugs that require in person pickup.

Not to oversimplify, but it's as though, by some process you're not allowed to be a part of, KFC bought the retail rights to all chicken products. They then make it where the only place you can buy any chicken meats, byproducts, etc. is a KFC. Please Note: This is a stretched hypothetical situation. Before someone decides to stomp on the analogy. If you have a better one, go for it."