From Public Citizen (https://www.citizen.org/):
“The pharmaceutical industry is getting away with murder.”
That’s what Donald Trump said back in January.
Now, President Trump is writing an executive order that will keep medicine prices high and increase them abroad.
Tell Congress: Reject Big Pharma’s capture of the White House and act now to drive down drug prices at http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=13548.
A Big Pharma lobbyist is literally driving policy in the White House.
And the Donald Trump who promised to make medications more affordable, ease Americans’ pain and take on the giant corporations is nowhere to be seen.
Here’s how this translates into policy: Instead of lowering prices, a draft Trump executive order proposes to:
- Lower safety standards.
- Narrow a policy that enables hospitals to purchase more affordable medicines.
- Beat up on developing countries to make them grant longer monopolies and pay more.
Making medications more costly for the world’s poor won’t make them more affordable in the United States, and it won’t help Americans who are forced to choose between paying for their health care and paying their rent.
There is nothing complicated about reducing drug prices. It just requires the will to take on Big Pharma.
Add your name to demand Congress and the Trump administration:
- End monopolies and speed up competition. The government should authorize generic competition when prices on patented products are too high.
- Enable Medicare to negotiate (that move alone would save $16 billion a year).
- Prohibit spikes that see prices jump from one year to the next.
Americans of all political stripes are furious about corporations’ skyrocketing prices for lifesaving medicines. In polls, Republicans rate this a bigger concern than Obamacare.
Sign our petition telling Congress to act now to make medicines affordable.
If we work together, we can defeat Big Pharma’s political power.
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