02/25/2025
🚨PLEASE READ CAREFULLY🚨
Today at 1pm, Super Bee Pharmacy will be turning our lights out. You may notice the black wreaths and black balloons. No, we’re not closing. As far as we know, there won’t be a power outage. We’ll still be here to serve you! We’re just turning our lights out as a symbolic act of solidarity with many other independent, community pharmacies throughout the state of Alabama. We have some staff traveling to Montgomery to speak with our lawmakers along with our other independent pharmacist and technician friends locally and around Alabama. You will notice other independent pharmacies around you will be doing some form or variation of this as well.
Every year, there are a shocking number of independent pharmacies that turn their lights out for good. Unless there is reform, this trend will continue and probably accelerate in the years to come. Some of our customers have already experienced what it’s like when you’re forced to move to a chain pharmacy or mail order because independent pharmacies like us are not being given a fair shake.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there. Some people want you to think that this is about making prescription meds more costly for consumers. And those people who want you to think that have lots of money and lots of influence. But this is about consumers and businesses asking insurance companies to stop spending the bulk of the money we’re giving them on themselves, and to actually use that money to allow pharmacists and doctors and nurses to provide care for people in their communities while also keeping our lights on.
With all of these competing storylines, this is the question I want you to ask yourself: “Who are you going to trust? The pharmacists and pharmacy techs and other medical providers who work in your community, who help take care of you and your family, who look after the people in our community and truly care about them? Or a bunch of corporate jackleg sitting in their swanky offices in high rise building in big cities far away from here?”
If you want community pharmacies and doctors and hospitals to survive, we’re asking you to use your voice and tell your elected officials to support SB93 along with other much-needed insurance reform.
If you’d like more information about what Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are and why we desperately need PBM reform in Alabama, you can visit this link to read more: https://affordablemedsal.com/
Please reach out to your local representatives
Senator Andrew Jones
334.261.0857
Andrew.jones@alsenate.gov
Representative Craig Lipscomb
334.261.0546
Bclipscomb@life.com
Representative Mack Butler
334.261.0490
Mack.butler@alhouse.gov
Representative Mark Gidley
mark.gidley@alhouse.gov
334.261.0432
This is NOT a prescription tax and cost will not go up. This is a political tactic being used by those who would like to see your independent pharmacies go away. In fact, the bill language states insurance/PBMs may NOT pass this cost on to the patient.
This legislation will only affect commercial insurance plans, not Medicare, Medicaid , Tricare, or cash transactions.
Pharmacies are closing all over the state. We cannot keep continuing to keep our doors open if we aren’t paid what it costs us to provide your medication to you.
This WILL follow a proven model that has saved over $50 MILLION in Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Learn how pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) drive up prescription costs and limit your access to medication. Take action for PBM reform in Alabama!
