From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): We are delighted that President Biden issued an Executive Order this week to help lower drug prices. [1] This is a great start! But this order alone won’t fundamentally solve the problem of price gouging by … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): Recently, we held an event with Sen. Dan Laughlin and Sen. Sharif Street, who have recently introduced a new bipartisan bill aimed at lowering prescription drug costs. If passed, SB 579 would create … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): Prescription drug costs are out of control and Pennsylvanians are struggling. That’s why PHAN created the PA Coalition for Fair Drug Pricing, a group of people and organizations across the state fighting for lower drug … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): This group (and more!) gathered in Harrisburg on February 25 for a hearing the PA House Health Committee is holding on prescription drug prices with people who have been hurt by high prescription … Continued
From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): Faith in Healthcare is grateful to the terrific social movement weekly publication Waging Nonviolence for publishing this article by our editor. We offer it here to Faith in Healthcare readers in two parts. Part One: Elizabeth Pfiester … Continued
From the Courage Campaign (https://www.couragecampaign.org/): More than 1.25 million people in the U.S. suffer from Type 1 diabetes, which requires insulin to treat.(1) Predatory pharmaceutical companies have doubled the cost of insulin in the last six years, and now one … Continued
From Social Security Works (http://www.socialsecurityworks.org/): The House of Representatives is poised to advance legislation that would save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars by lowering the price of prescription drugs. This bill, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019 … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): Drug companies like to claim that the reason they set their prices so high is that they have to spend a lot of money to research and develop new drugs. But, you know … Continued
From Families USA (http://www.familiesusa.org): This week Democratic House Leadership released their long-awaited legislation, H.R.3, to rein in prescription drug prices. This legislation would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices and otherwise hold drug companies accountable for outrageous prices. For far … Continued
From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): Public Citizen last week released an important overview of the pharmaceutical industry, which includes such insights as: The Industry is Huge: “The global market for pharmaceuticals reached $1.2 trillion in 2018. Just one product—AbbVie’s Humira—had almost the same … Continued