The Mamdani administration has a crucial opportunity to reverse New York City's affordability crisis; this ILSR policy memo suggests strategies to do so.
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell urges further regulatory enforcement and new federal and state legislation to address PBMs’ anticompetitive tactics while eliminating inherent conflicts of interest.
ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell illustrates how independent pharmacies are the unsung heroes of healthcare, providing critical services that chain pharmacies simply can't match.
Join independent businesses from across the country for a virtual town hall event to mark our progress and build momentum to rein in monopoly power...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya gave keynotes at the forum, which featured people on the frontlines fighting for antimonopoly reform.
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs invited Stacy Mitchell to testify at its April 2021 hearing on the rural economy.
Stacy Mitchell and Zach Freed explain how the FTC has protected the power of a few dominant drug middlemen, like CVS, to crush local pharmacies.
Stacy Mitchell explains why independent pharmacies are beating the chains in vaccine distribution. Small pharmacies have proved remarkably nimble, while CVS and Walgreens have stumbled.
Many people assume that local pharmacies are declining because they can’t compete. In fact, research by Consumer Reports and others has found that independent pharmacies...
Independent pharmacies could flourish, helping solve the growing problem of healthcare deserts — if only policymakers would stand up to big players in the drug...
A report by ILSR is recognized as “Best Antitrust and Small Business Article” as part of the annual Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship.
There’s a small group of powerful companies, called pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, that increasingly controls the prices of prescription drugs. The results of this...
In this report, we argue that anticompetitive behavior by large, dominant corporations is largely to blame for the steep decline in small businesses.
At North Dakota polls on Tuesday, local ownership was the winner. The state voted overwhelmingly to keep its forward-thinking Pharmacy Ownership Law, defeating Measure 7,...
This Tuesday, North Dakota voters will decide the fate of the state’s Pharmacy Ownership Law. Those working against the law—namely Walmart, which has sunk more...