06/30/2025

Ohio Pharmacy Measure Will Make Closures ‘Explode,’ Group Says

One advocate calls it a ‘suicide’ bill

Compromise budget language hashed out this week by an Ohio House-Senate committee will make problems hurting Ohio pharmacies infinitely worse, the leader of a group that represents them said Thursday.

He added that the Ohio Chamber of Commerce — which advocated part of the legislation — seemed blind to the effect it would have on member businesses by making it more difficult for employees to access medicine.

As it works against a June 30 budget deadline, a House-Senate conference committee approved an amendment that keeps part of a bill meant to help ailing pharmacies but slashes another. The result, said Dave Burke, a pharmacist, former state senator and executive director of the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA), will be that pharmacies will go from earning scant profits to none at all.

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