One state representative says his pharmacy benefit manager reform bill that passed this session will lower prescription drug costs over time. Monroe Republican Michael Echols says his legislation is a simple idea – if there’s a deal on your medicine, the savings go to you, not the corporate middlemen.
The NCAA announces a new N-I-L Go program to review payments over 600 dollars. Sports attorney Fritz Metzinger of Stone Pigman says the Deloitte review board can determine whether they are valid business opportunities or masked booster payments.
Cut 15 (13) “…N-I-L payments.”
Big game for LSU tonight as they face UCLA in a winner’s bracket game in the College World Series. UCLA is 48-and-16 and entered the NCAA baseball tournament as the 15 seed. Head Coach Jay Johnson on the Bruins:
If LSU wins, that gives them a huge advantage – they would then have two chances to advance to the best-of-three national championship series. First pitch from Omaha tonight is six p-m.
Scottish native Robert MacIntyre, who spent a year at McNeese before turning pro, finished second at the U.S. Open, two strokes behind J.J. Spaun at one over par. MacIntyre said it’s a matter of so close, yet so far away.