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How Pharma Price Hikes and the EPIC Act Threaten Access to Lifesaving HIV Treatment
A new analysis from Patients For Affordable Drugs spotlights a troubling pattern: pharmaceutical companies are raising prices on HIV medications, while simultaneously lobbying Congress to pass the harmful EPIC Act. Click here to download
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Analysis is part of a new series on Pharma-driven price hikes of essential medicines WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new analysis from Patients For Affordable Drugs spotlights a troubling pattern: pharmaceutical companies are raising prices on HIV medications, while simultaneously lobbying Congress to pass the harmful EPIC Act, which would delay Medicare drug price negotiations that could lower prices on […]
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ICYMI: Majority of Americans Worried about Affording Prescription Drugs, New Polling Confirms
WASHINGTON, D.C. — New polling from KFF underscores just how deeply the high cost of prescription drugs is harming Americans across the country. Findings include: 59% of U.S. adults are worried about their ability to pay for prescription drugs, either for themselves or their families. This is the largest share since KFF began polling the question in 2018. […]
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InsideHealthPolicy: Patient Advocates Worry GUARD Model Will Impede HIV Drug Access
As CMS reviews the comments its received from HIV+HEP and other stakeholders on the GUARD model, new analysis from the advocacy organization Patients for Affordable Drugs (P4AD) found the United States pays the highest prices in the world for antiretroviral drugs, as median costs exceed $35,000 annually and have been rising faster than the rate of inflation […]
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Epoch Times: How the High Cost of Health Care Hurts Patients
Kevin Baker, 23, of Eugene, Oregon, takes medication to control Crohn’s disease. The prescription costs more than $6,500 per month. The medication is under patent, so it’s available from only one manufacturer. Baker has health insurance, but his insurer refused to pay for the drug. And although the manufacturer provides financial assistance to some patients, […]
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STAT News: A month in, TrumpRx falls short of president’s grand promises
“For several patients in our community, TrumpRx prices are the same or even higher than what they currently pay with insurance,” Merith Basey, executive director of Patients For Affordable Drugs, said in a statement to STAT. “While continued efforts to lower prescription drug prices are encouraged, this program’s design does not address the root cause […]
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WSOC-TV: Action 9: Ways to save more on your meds
Emmabella Rudd has diabetes. Her struggle to get insulin led her to become a patient advocate for affordable drugs “Being a patient, especially in the United States, relying on a prescription drug to survive, is, you know, navigating hurdles day to day, and that can be extremely frustrating,” she said. It’s not surprising to Merith […]
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Washington Post: Lower drug prices: Just the beginning
On a recent WP Intelligence Live Briefing, “Washington’s new push on drug pricing,” Patients For Affordable Drugs CEO Merith Basey explained why Medicare’s new negotiation authority is already delivering life-changing savings for seniors and why advocates see this as just the beginning of broader reform. Watch the full briefing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXH2CVa9YsU