Can One Angry Dad Fix The Drug Industry?
Bil Schmidtknecht blames pharmacy benefit managers for the death of his son. He won’t rest until he holds them accountable.
Helen Santoro
Bil Schmidtknecht stares into his smartphone camera with a furrowed brow, eyes squinted, choosing his words carefully. He posts these videos almost every day, sometimes multiple times a day, across different platforms, but each video starts the same way:
“Angry Dad here.”
In one video, Schmidtknecht films himself walking through a Wisconsin airport after meeting with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Bil’s been filming himself and using the name Angry Dad ever since he lost his 22-year-old son Cole on a frigid winter night a year and a half ago, when Cole’s throat locked up so tightly that emergency personnel struggled to intubate him. Since he realized his son’s death wasn’t a random accident — that there was someone to blame.
“Angry Dad here.”
In another video filmed in a sunny parking lot outside of a small pharmacy, Bil’s holding what was a matter of life and death for his son: An asthma inhaler — the same one that Cole didn’t have when everything went wrong.
“Angry Dad here.”
In yet another video, Bil’s standing outside an office building in Minnesota, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. The concrete structure behind him is large but unassuming, one that thousands of people pass by every day without a second thought. Inside are the people that Bil blames for Cole’s death, the people he’s made it his life’s mission to stop.
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A great father and determined despite the odds.
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