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“We are dying”: Patient to Share Drug Pricing Testimony at Energy & Commerce Hearing Today
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over the 47 years Patient Advocate Gail deVore has lived with Type 1 diabetes, the price of her insulin has increased from $5 to $1,400 for four vials. Today, the Colorado resident will share her story during an Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on the price of insulin. Almost 30 million Americans […]
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FIRDAPSE FLOP: BIO Ignores Calls to Disavow Catalyst Pharmaceuticals
WASHINGTON, DC — One of Big Pharma’s major trade organizations has ignored a call from patients to expel Catalyst Pharmaceuticals — the drug maker responsible for increasing the price of an old drug from $0 to $375,000 overnight. Patients For Affordable Drugs sent a letter and a petition with nearly 2,000 signatures last week to Jim […]
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Meet Our March Drug Price Fighting Heroes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every month, Patients For Affordable Drugs highlights two Price Fighting Heroes taking action in the fight to lower prescription drug prices. This month, P4AD is pleased to recognize Patient Advocate Meg Jackson-Drage and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh for their courage and tenacity in standing up to Big Pharma. Meg Jackson-Drage is a […]
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STATEMENT: The Price of Insulin is Still Too High
WASHINGTON, DC — In response to today’s news that Eli Lilly will begin selling an authorized generic of Humalog for $137.35 per vial, Ben Wakana, Executive Director of Patients For Affordable Drugs, issued the following statement: “Clearly, the insulin cartel is feeling pressure after years of price gouging a lifesaving drug. But charging nearly $140 […]
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WATCH: The Senate Finance Hearing Moment You May Have Missed
WASHINGTON, D.C — Drug company executives proved just how out of touch they are with the American public by answering one key question during yesterday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing: What keeps you up at night? Patients For Affordable Drugs released a new digital video today to highlight what should matter to the drug corporations: that […]
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Proposed Rebate Rule Is Serious Step Forward
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In light of the news that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar proposed a new rule to end the safe harbor protections for rebates in government prescription drug programs, Patients For Affordable Drugs founder and cancer patient, David Mitchell, issued the following statement: “The proposed rule is a serious step forward. It […]
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Pfizer Hiked 40 Drug Prices; Here are 3 Patient Stories
WASHINGTON, DC — Next week, Congress will hold a hearing to investigate, among other things, Pfizer’s price hikes on more than three dozen drugs. Patients For Affordable Drugs tracked down the list of drugs that increased in price this month (data below), and we wanted to share three stories from patients who take those drugs. […]
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Statement on Pfizer Raising the Prices of 41 Drugs
WASHINGTON, DC –– In response to Pfizer’s price hikes on 41 drugs taking effect today, David Mitchell, a cancer patient and the founder of Patients For Affordable Drugs, issued the following statement: “To Pfizer, patients aren’t people –– we’re a payday. Instead of raising prices, Pfizer should lower prices on existing drugs by 1 percent […]