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New video follows three patient advocates as they travel to D.C. to share their stories on Capitol Hill and encourage others to speak up. WASHINGTON, D.C. — August 19, 2026 — Today, on National Patient Advocacy Day, Patients For Affordable Drugs (P4AD) released a new video, Your Voice Is Your Power, celebrating some of the patients whose […]
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D.C. Circuit Rejects Teva’s Core Challenges to Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
Patient Advocates Applaud Another Major Legal Victory Protecting Medicare’s Power to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Teva Pharmaceuticals’ core statutory and constitutional challenges to the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, delivering another significant legal victory for the historic program that is lowering prescription […]
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The advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs noted in a March report that during the first week of 2026, pharmaceutical companies “increased prices on 64 oncology drugs, with 73% of hikes exceeding inflation.”
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Herald-Tribune: Generic drug costs could rise under new tariff plan
“Imposing massive tariffs on generic medicines risks making lower-cost generic drugs millions of Americans rely on more expensive and harder to access,” said Merith Basey, CEO of Patients for Affordable Drugs. “Tariffs of this magnitude could have enormous consequences − raising costs, worsening shortages and putting access to lifesaving medicines at risk.”
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Lawmakers must protect, expand Medicare drug cost negotiation
As a patient on Medicare, I rely on my Xarelto prescription to prevent deadly blood clots caused by my rare blood cancer, multiple myeloma and the oral chemotherapy I take daily. These drugs used to cost me anywhere from $15,000 to $21,000 every year for ten years. I’ve had to cobble together grants, decimate my […]
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Even so, Merith Basey, the CEO of advocacy organization Patients For Affordable Drugs, expressed concern to Reuters that “Imposing massive tariffs on generic medicines risk making lower-cost generic drugs millions of Americans rely on more expensive and harder to access.”
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Asia Times: New Trump tariffs to block Indian, Chinese generic drugs sourcing
Merith Basey, CEO of the advocacy organization Patients for Affordable Drugs, argued that “if the administration intends to lower prescription drug prices, it should not pursue policies that threaten to raise them. Imposing massive tariffs on generic medicines risks making lower-cost generic drugs millions of Americans rely on more expensive and harder to access.” “Generic […]