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Patients For Affordable Drugs Goes Inside the Belly of the Beast

June 8, 2017 Contact: [email protected] BOSTON, MA – Patients For Affordable Drugs is taking the fight for lower drug prices inside one of America’s biggest drug corporations. Today, Juliana Keeping, the mother of a cystic fibrosis child is headed to Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ annual shareholder meeting to confront company executives about their price gouging tactics and […]

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Patients For Affordable Drugs Launches Petition to Lower Drug Prices

April 11, 2017 Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Patients For Affordable Drugs launched a nationwide petition urging lawmakers to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices on behalf of patients and taxpayers. The petition was launched by David Mitchell, a patient with incurable blood cancer whose drugs cost $20,000 per bi-weekly treatment. The petition […]

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Statement on Prescription Drug Importation Legislation

February 28, 2017 Contact: [email protected] Statement by Ben Wakana, Executive Director of Patients For Affordable Drugs on Prescription Drug Importation Legislation “Patients For Affordable Drugs has one key touchstone in evaluating policy proposals to lower drug prices: In our best judgment, will the proposal help patients access safe and effective drugs at lower costs? “In […]

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New Independent Patient Group to Fight Skyrocketing Drug Prices

For Immediate Release February 22, 2017 Contact: [email protected] New Independent Patient Group to Fight Skyrocketing Drug Prices Patients For Affordable Drugs will share stories of Americans struggling to afford prescriptions and mobilize patients to fight a rigged U.S. pricing system Washington, D.C.— A new independent organization called Patients For Affordable Drugs kicked off a nationwide effort to lower […]