The Department of Labor’s proposed rule complicates healthcare

Published May 11, 2026 10:00am ET



America’s healthcare market is about to get less fair and more costly, thanks to a badly written new set of compliance and declaration rules from the Department of Labor. It’s not too late to stop it.

The proposed rules come on the heels of February’s Consolidated Appropriations Act, which erected a comprehensive federal framework to enhance transparency, lower costs, and increase oversight of the pharmacy benefits manager market. The bipartisan omnibus spending package made real progress toward transparency and savings in America’s opaque healthcare system and was a lobbying defeat for the PBM industry.

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