From Social Security Works (http://www.socialsecurityworks.org/):
We have the power to rein in big pharma’s greed without relying on the do-nothing Republicans in Congress.
Last month, Mylan – the maker of EpiPen – offered fake price concessions in response to public outcry at its price gouging of the American public. Mylan’s skyrocketing costs on an emergency, lifesaving drug has no justification. Taxpayer dollars were spent to create the EpiPen, and yet for too many Americans this lifesaving medicine is unaffordable.
Mylan is just a symptom of a much bigger problem – a corrupt system where drug corporations spend millions on lobbying so that Congress does nothing to take away their monopolies. The costs of insulin, a necessary treatment for the over 29 million Americans who suffer from diabetes, have risen by 200% since 2002. We need to take action to make vital medications available to everyone who needs them.
Hillary Clinton has proposed specific executive actions that – if elected – she would enact to make drugs affordable for everyone who needs them. But millions of Americans can’t wait until next year.
That’s why Social Security Works, CREDO Action and the Other 98% are calling on President Obama to act now against drug corporation price gouging! Join us in demanding immediate action to change the rules and curb excess profits and monopolies at http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6405/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12470.
Clinton’s plan makes it clear that policy makers are listening, and that it is possible to take executive action to rein in big pharma. President Obama should have his administration immediately:
- Break up pharma monopolies and increase competition by directly intervening to make treatments available as well as supporting alternative manufacturers that enter the market.
- Broaden access to safe, high-quality medications through emergency importation from developed countries with strong safety standards.
- Instruct relevant agencies to crack down and punish price fixing and cartelism that drug corporations use to create and protect monopoly pricing.
Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all overwhelmingly agree that prescription drug prices are far too high. And if Congress is unwilling to act because of a firehose of corrupting lobbying dollars, then President Obama must take action to make drugs affordable for all Americans who need them.
Together, we are demanding a government that puts the needs of the people before the profits of greedy corporate interests.
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