Merck/Medco firewall holding up
Executive Summary
Merck's Gilmartin professes ignorance about the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association's ads targeting chain drug stores in the Medicare debate (1"The Pink Sheet" June 16, 2003, p. 9). During his speech to the National Press Club, Gilmartin lamented the division of health care sectors into different "camps" in policy debates. When asked about the PCMA ads (funded in part by Merck's Medco Health PBM division), Gilmartin maintained that he is "unfamiliar" with the campaign...