healthcare executive helena foulkes Never cared about your health.
healthcare executive helena foulkes Never cared about your health.
as president of cvs, helena foulkes drove up the costs of healthcare while she made millions.
as president of cvs, helena foulkes drove up the costs of healthcare while she made millions.
as cvs President, foulkes:
as cvs President, foulkes:
raised the price of insulin, which 30,000 rhode islanders depend on to survive.1
The FTC investigated and took action against CVS Caremark for artificially inflating insulin prices from 1999 to 2017, contributing to up to 1200% percent price increases of the life-saving medicine. 2 3
pushed to cut $90 million from Rhode Island Medicaid.
Helena Foulkes, as part of the Reinventing Medicaid Working Group, recommended cutting $90 million from Rhode Island's Medicaid program, largely at the expense of our hospitals. 4 5
merged CVS with insurance giant Aetna, which kicked people off healthcare, driving up prices. 6
In 2017, Aetna stopped selling health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, kicking 900,000 people off their healthcare 7 and raising insurance premiums by 21%. 8
as healthcare grew more expensive, helena foulkes made $21 million as cvs ceo.9
her profit became rhode island's pain.
as healthcare grew more expensive, helena foulkes made $21 million as cvs ceo.9
her profit became rhode island's pain.
if that's what helena foulkes did as ceo...
imagine what she'd do as governor.
if that's what helena foulkes did as ceo...
imagine what she'd do as governor.
NBC 10 News, 5.9.22
FTC, 9.20.24
Politico, 9.20.24
Report of the Working Group to Reinvent Medicaid, 2025.
Providence Business News, 4.30.15.
NBC, 12.3.17; Vox, 8.17.16
NPR, 8.16.16
Urban Institute, 1.11.17; USA Today, 8.16.16
GoLocalProv, 1.21.25
as president of cvs pharmacy,
foulkes pocketed millions while thousands died of opioid overdoses
as president of cvs pharmacy,
foulkes pocketed millions while thousands died of opioid overdoses
According to federal prosecutors, under her watch CVS repeatedly refused to implement available procedures...because it wanted to keep raking in profits1
Helena foulkes profited from the opioid crisis
She can't be trusted to lead
Helena foulkes profited from the opioid crisis
She can't be trusted to lead
Take a look at
Take a look at
What Helena Foulkes Said Versus Reality
What Helena Foulkes Said Versus Reality
“We confronted this crisis head-on”
Prosecutors say CVS executives, like Foulkes, repeatedly refused to implement available procedures to prevent or diminish illegal dispensing because they did not want to reduce sales...2
"A lot of people missed this, and I do wish we'd all found it sooner."
Prosecutors say CVS executives, like Foulkes, knew that they had the ability to slow, stop—or, by contrast, encourage—the stream of invalid prescriptions by their policies...3
"As soon as we saw what was going on, we took action, I took action”
Prosecutors say year after year, CVS executives like Foulkes made decisions to choose profits over legal compliance and prioritized volume and speed over care and safety, ignoring desperate pleas from their own pharmacists for help...4
“I put particular blame on Perdue Pharma”
...between October 17, 2013, and the present, CVS pharmacists were ordered to knowingly fill at least thousands of unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances. CVS filled these prescriptions knowing that the...prescriptions...were issued by prescribers CVS knew to be engaged in pill mill practices...5
GoLocal Prov, 1/21/2025
DOJ complaint, p. 43
DOJ complaint, p. 43
DOJ complaint, p. 43
DOJ complaint, p. 49