Pressing for answers to cancelled prescription contracts hindering Idaho Veterans’ and Servicemembers’ pharmacy access

Idaho is made even greater by the more than 116,000 veterans, the 4,063 active-duty servicemembers and the 8,367 National Guard and reserve members who live here. We have been working steadily to ensure federal policy supports their service and makes it easier for them to live here in Idaho.  This includes our raising concerns about a recent change cutting almost 15,000 pharmacies, mostly in small communities, from the TRICARE program, limiting military families’ ability to continue going to their community pharmacies for their prescriptions.  For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper’s online edition.