“Purdue’s strategy to ensure broad access to its blockbuster painkiller OxyContin was explicit: “Offer rebates to remove payer restriction”

Link. “UnitedHealthcare raised concerns about abuse of OxyContin, noting that some patients were being prescribed as many as 1,000 pills a month.”

UHC as the good actpr. Most of this story is 1996 to 2003. PBMs that didn’t play along were absorbed by those who did. And America became more corrupt.