Tell the Administration and Congress to Ensure Treatments and Vaccines Available at Fair Price

There are more than 1.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and nearly 100,000 deaths.

We must never become numb to those numbers. Instead, we must fight to ensure everyone can get treatment and a vaccine—regardless of their ability to pay—once they are developed.

Big Pharma has placed their own profits and greed above the health and safety of the American people for far too long. That’s why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs even as our tax dollars fund their development.

Add your name at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/big-pharma-monopolies-covid: It’s time to end Big Pharma’s monopolies on life-saving drugs.

The administration plans on allowing pharmaceutical companies to use their monopoly power to charge high prices for a vaccine, once it is developed.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was asked during a congressional hearing whether the government could assure that a coronavirus vaccine would be available and affordable to all Americans, he stated plainly that it could not.

When the FDA commissioner was asked about the government’s plan to distribute a vaccine, he said the cost of a vaccine is not the FDA’s responsibility.

Exorbitant drug prices are the product of government policy—policies that give drug companies patent monopolies, but don’t require they sell medications at fair prices.

This must end. We are living through a global pandemic. It is disgraceful if Big Pharma’s profits are prioritized over the health of children, families, and seniors throughout our country.

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Jan Schakowsky have introduced the COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act to ensure any and all treatments and vaccines are available at a fair price to every American.

Sign if you agree! Tell the administration and Congress to end monopolies on life-saving drugs, and pass the COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act now.

The administration also could stop drug price gouging by ordering the federal government to break monopolies on any drug at any time. This would save lives.

The administration, however, needs to find the will to act in the interests of the people of this country—not Big Pharma. Let’s unite our voices, and make sure the White House and Congress hear us.