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Luke Slindee

Luke Slindee

Luke Slindee lives in Hopkins and is a pharmacist who studies monopolies and anticompetitive business practices in the health care industry.

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CVS hellth: Corporate consolidation is ruining pharmacies and hurting patients

By: - July 26, 2023

If you spent any time in a pharmacy on July 10 or 11, you may have noticed prescriptions were delayed, and the staff seemed even more stressed than usual. CVS Caremark, the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) component of CVS Health, was non-operational for multiple days, meaning when the pharmacy tried to electronically submit a claim […]

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Prescription drug middlemen are bad for patients, crushing indy pharmacies

By: and - April 5, 2023

Kemper Drug in Elk River recently closed its doors for the last time after having served the community for over 70 years.  Businesses fail every day, but Elk River became the latest in a long list of Minnesota cities to lose one or all of its pharmacies since 2006. Behind the alarming loss of independent […]