From Faith in Healthcare (https://faithinhealthcare.org): The Medicare Part D prescription drug program could have saved $14.4 billion in 2016 by negotiating its costs as the VA did, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Drug industry lobbying power led to current … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): In EPI’s Working Economics blog, EPI’s Bivens lauds Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Democratic colleagues in the Senate and the House for pushing meaningful health care reform by introducing the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation … Continued
Tell Congress to pass the “Improving Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs Act” to lower drug prices and rein in abuses by pharmaceutical corporations. Our system rewards drug corporations with overwhelming monopoly power, and Big Pharma uses that power to charge … Continued