Real Stories, Real People
Patient Testimonies
It has been a long journey for me.
My name is Luz Lopez and I am a resident of Phoenix, Arizona. High drug prices have become a huge issue for me as I face multiple health issues –– and I know countless other Arizonans face similar health care problems. I have suffered from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome since 2001. Living with chronic […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet March Price Fighting Hero Meg Jackson-Drage
Meg Jackson-Drage is a 50-year-old living in Magna, Utah with her husband and family. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and lives with neuropathic pain, both of which require costly medication. Meg was most recently prescribed Pfizer’s blockbuster drug, Lyrica, to treat the pain and symptoms of fibromyalgia. But when Meg found out it would cost […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet March Price Fighting Hero Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is a price fighting hero thanks to his relentless commitment in the fight to lower drug prices. In 2017, Maryland enacted a new law targeting generic drug makers and the “price gouging” of consumers. The law prohibited “unconscionable” price increases for generic drugs and gave the Maryland attorney general the […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet February Price Fighting Hero Bob Fowler
Bob Fowler is a college professor from North Ridgeville, Ohio who lives with the blood cancer multiple myeloma. Three years after his diagnosis in 2006, he was put on Celgene’s medication, Revlimid. He was shocked to learn that one 28-day cycle of Revlimid costs his insurance company $13,600 for a total of $177,000 per year […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet February Price Fighting Hero Senator Chuck Grassley
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has long stood up to the pharmaceutical industry –– and he’s continuing the fight for lower drug prices in his role as Senate Finance Committee Chair. Patients For Affordable Drugs applauds his efforts and is pleased to name Sen. Grassley a February Price Fighting Hero. As chair of the Senate Finance […]
Patient Testimonies
I am a 57 year-old woman living with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative and progressively disabling disease of the central nervous system. I have seldom written or said that out loud more than a few times. Part of it is that if I say it out loud, it makes it real and it’s so scary. But […]
Patient Testimonies
Pfizer: Enormous Profits at the Expense of Patients
In mid-January Patients For Affordable Drugs released a report that examined the toll Pfizer’s price hikes have on patients. Today, Axios reported that “no drug company raised prices more frequently than Pfizer.” The company raised the price of its drugs 2,316 times between 2015-2019. Given the new revelations, we’re adding an addendum to our original […]
Patient Testimonies
My name is Denise and I am a 66 year old resident of Gardiner, New York. I have a long history of dealing with cancer, and my story is not an easy one. In 2011, I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. After going through therapy, I was declared in remission. However, it wasn’t […]