Supermarket News editor-in-chief David Orgel is the latest to write about the "controversial" comments of Express Scripts CEO George Paz, who dismissed the value of pharmacy by saying "...drugs are drugs, and it shouldn't matter that much who's counting to 30." 

David McCann, web news editor for CFO magazine, posted a blog entry on February 24 that bears a headline that summarizes broad-based concerns about the proposed Express Scripts and Medco merger:  "Big PBM Deal: a Matter of Antitrust. Not to Mention Just Plain Trust."

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Tuesday published an article titled "Express Scripts-Medco merger under fire," and Express Scripts just may feel that headline describes the coverage it has been receiving from its hometown media.

Writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, columnist Kevin Horrigan provided further evidence that the pen indeed is mightier than the sword.  It would be hard to imagine a more artful though devastating account of the proposed Express Scripts and Medco merger.  

In an op-ed column in Pennsylvania's The Morning Call, pharmacy owner Robert Frankil writes in opposition to the proposed Express Scripts and Medco merger.  The merger of pharmaceutical insurance middle-men is feared to create anti-competitive and anti-consumer consequences.

The editorial board of the TIMESLedger in Queens, New York, today urged the Federal Trade Commission to "draw the line between free enterprise and monopolies," and to "come down on the side of the consumer" by blocking the proposed Express Scripts and Medco merger.

The Pennsylvania newspaper Pottsville Republican has editorialized that the Federal Trade Commission should reject the proposed Express Scripts and Medco merger.  The Editorial Board said that the merger "would create less competition not just for price, but for service and convenience, all at the expense of consumers who are not one-size-fits-all."

The Editorial Board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes of the proposed Express Scripts and Medco merger:  "the antitrust issues are real."