Health Care Companies Move for FTC Chair’s Recusal Over Past Comments

The FTC brought a complaint against pharmacy benefit managers for allegedly artificially inflating insulin prices.
Health Care Companies Move for FTC Chair’s Recusal Over Past Comments
Lina Khan, then-nominee for FTC commissioner, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 21, 2021. Graeme Jennings/AP Photo
Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
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Major health care companies are calling on Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan and two of her fellow commissioners to recuse themselves from a case centering on how the companies price insulin.

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) CVS Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth’s OptumRx filed motions on Oct. 8 in a proceeding before an administrative law judge, arguing that commissioners Khan, Alvaro Bedoya, and Rebecca Slaughter had made statements demonstrating deep bias on the issue.

Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
Sam Dorman is a Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for The Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at @EpochofDorman.
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