Louisiana AG investigating CVS for sending mass text messages lobbying against legislation
Baton Rouge, La. – Louisiana Chief Public Prosecutor Liz Murrill said on Thursday that the Pharmaceutical Giant CVS has explored whether it mislead the personal information of customers to send text messages to lobby against a proposed state law.
Murrill also said that he plans to stop and publish a desist letter to the company to stop messages.
On Wednesday, MPs now discussed a failed invoice, while the screenshots of the text messages sent by CVS prepared the screenshots.
A text obtained by Associated Press threatens the last -minute legislation in Louisiana to close your CVS pharmacy – your drug cost may rise and your pharmacist may lose its work ”.
The proposed legislation would prohibit companies from having both pharmacy benefit managers and drug stores.
In addition to retail pharmacies, CVS Health Corporation has CVS Caremark, the country’s top three pharmacy benefits, with its market share from more than 100 million members. CVS Caremark and other managers serve as intermediaries that buy prescription drugs from manufacturers and determine the conditions for how they are distributed to customers.
2024 The Federal Commercial Commission of the Federal may be profitable by inflating drug costs and squeezing the main street pharmacies ”. report warned.
CVS says on its website that “lower costs for our customers negotiates lower costs and expand the scope to affordable drugs that should be healthy”.
The company included a draft letter to the residents of Louisiana to oppose the legislation that one of the deputies could sign the legislation that one could sign with E -Post addresses and send to the legislators.
“The proposed legislation will eliminate the ability of my and other Louisiana to send our medicines to our homes,” he said. “Also, pharmacies serving patients suffer from complex diseases requiring special pharmacy care would forbid their life-threatening conditions such as organ transplantation or cancer. These vulnerable patients could not provide any deterioration in their care-their outcomes would be terrible.”
Representative Dixon McMakin pointed out some messages from CVS, saying that they were misleading and wrong. In particular, he pointed out the ads that stated that people saw on social media and claimed that MPs could close every CVS pharmacy in the state ”.
“No, we’re not, you are liars. Stop being a liar. Stop using cowardly tactics, Mc said Mc.
Republican representative Bryan Fontenot kept his phone, showing that he received a text message from the CVS.
“The same text to inform when my prescription is filled (used in the thread (used),” he said. “Now they took me to send me political texts.”
The CVS sent a message to make lobbying against the proposed legislation, which includes the “numerous”, the company’s pharmaceutical advantages of the state employees and their families.
Customers gave CVS their phone numbers to obtain drug information such as vaccination or prescription purchases, but the company uses this personal information for their personal corporate interests against the waiting legislation ”. “That’s why nobody gave them the phone number.”
CVS spokesman Amy Thibault said the texts were the result of last -minute change without a public trial opportunity on Wednesday.
The change was prepared by a conference committee behind closed doors-a regular application used in the house where the senate cannot agree on the final versions of a bill.
Thibault said in an e -mail, ız We believe that we have our responsibility to inform our customers about misrepresented legislation trying to close their reliable pharmacies, and we have acted accordingly, ”he said. “Our communication with our customers, patients and members of our community is consistent with the law.”
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry continued to force the bill when the state legislature ended in the afternoon afternoon.
The law of law, which fans would support independent pharmacies and reduce the cost of prescription drugs, received an overwhelming approval at home with 88-4 votes.
Among those who voted against the measure was representative Mandie Landry. Democrat, while trying to vote in favor, but said that he received messages from the people in his region not to take it. He said CVS’s lobbyer reached them and consequently they fear that they would not have access to their medication.
“CVs… You must be ashamed of that. You scare people, Land Landry said.
The Senate ultimately died in the last hour of the 2025 session.
Landry said he plans to call a special session in the hope of passing through similar legislation.
“Yes, it will be a special to lower prescription drugs for our citizens, Land said Landry. “It’s so important.”
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Brook reported it from New Orleans.
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This story is not a spokesman, but Gov. It was updated to correct that Jeff Landry has published a written statement.
