内容摘要：Rep. Mike Simpson, a dentist from Idaho, said Kennedy’s plan to

Rep. Mike Simpson, a dentist from Idaho, said Kennedy’s plan to

But Greg Lopes, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association that represents PBMs, disputed PBMs’ role in closures and noted that some companies work with rural pharmacies to get higher reimbursements for drugs.Jones came back to the Basin area after pharmacy school. His daughter Camilla would come into the pharmacy with him on Sundays and he’d quiz her on different medications.

She’s now the president-elect of the state pharmacy association and helps run the Basin pharmacy.“We’ve definitely tried to do everything we can to run lean to find other options to try and make money to keep our doors open so we can continue to serve patients,” Camilla Hancock said. “But when you’re working so hard and you’re trying your darndest to accomplish these things, and you just kind of get kicked in the gut over and over, it’s really disheartening.”If it weren’t for the “devastating” impact on his daughter’s future, Jones admitted, “I’d pack it in.”

“I wish I could say I had this healthy, wonderful business I could hand off to my daughter,” he said. “But I worry whether it’s even going to be worthwhile for her to take it over if we can’t make a profit on it or even pay our own wages.”Associated Press data journalist Kasturi Pananjady in Philadelphia contributed to this report. Shastri reported from Herscher, Illinois.

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Some people who develop a weird and terrifying allergy to red meat afterAlthough she has not been able to trace the exact roots of her ancestry, her work and community make her feel closer to a long-lost home.

“When we, people from the same ethnicity meet, we call each other ‘brother,’” Castillo said. “After all, we came from the same ports.”She said she’ll never forget a presentation of “Dreaming of Africa,” when a girl from the audience approached her.

“She could barely speak, so we hugged,” Castillo said. “Then she said: ’Thank you for telling me I’m pretty, for making me feel my worth’.”Castillo, too, learns something about herself as she acts, writes and directs. It’s like peeling an onion, she said, taking layer by layer to reveal what’s underneath.