The Importance of State and Federal Initiatives in Step Therapy Reform

State efforts are extremely important. The federal bill wouldn't exist without the state bills having been successful first. It's a lot easier to get legislators on the federal side to co-sponsor a bill if they know that their state passed a similar law. And so those are all potential advocates and people that can then advocate their federal delegations to pass it too. So I love my collaboration with Sam. He's an excellent colleague"