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Healthcare insurance companies are actively fighting to keep drug costs low for their members and for their own bottom lines. Now a new policy brief offers state policymakers tips on how to shift more of the costs to payers in an effort to protect consumers.

The brief (.pdf) from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners outlines several regulations policymakers can adopt to ease consumers’ cost burdens, including: