Epoch Times: Your Prescription May Cost Less Than You Think

Still, those fixes depend on patients knowing where to look and having the time and energy to keep looking. Patients for Affordable Drugs Now said that such tools help in the short term but that they do not solve the underlying problem: the price of the drug itself.

“Americans know that high drug prices are largely due to Big Pharma’s vast pricing power and its manipulation of the patent system,” Merith Basey, the organization’s executive director, told The Epoch Times in an email.

Although Medicare negotiation has produced some relief—including caps on out-of-pocket costs for Medicare patients—one in three Americans still struggle to afford prescription drugs, she said.