Real Stories, Real People
Patient Testimonies
My name is Savanna and I am a college student in Nacogdoches, Texas. I suffer from severe allergic asthma as well as psoriatic arthritis with spondylitis and enthesitis. Suffice it to say, affordable medication is paramount to my well-being as a patient with a complex medical history. I currently have health insurance through my parents […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero Elizabeth Rowley
Elizabeth Rowley has channeled her experiences as a person living with Type 1 diabetes into global activism for her community, founding the nonprofit T1International to help assure patients have access to life-sustaining insulin, supplies and medical care. For her unwavering support to help others afford insulin and supplies while people living with diabetes are suffering […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero Yvanna Cancela
Yvanna Cancela is a state senator from Nevada and the lead sponsor of a first-in-the-nation insulin pricing transparency law to hold drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers accountable for never-ending price spikes that hurt patients. For her groundbreaking initiative at a time people with diabetes are skipping doses, losing their eyesight, and going without food due […]
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Price Fighting Hero: Andy Slavitt
Former CMS administrator Andy Slavitt has played an active role in the fight to lower drug prices. Slavitt voiced his support for allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which Patients For Affordable Drugs supports as a key step toward lowering drug prices for all Americans. Slavitt knows lower drug prices and innovation can co-exist. ”So […]
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Price Fighting Hero: Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall lives with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, a progressively disabling cancer. At 29 years old, Hall’s goals to advance her career and grow old with her husband evaporated when she received the results of a cancer scan. Her only goal after her diagnosis was to stay alive. Statistically, she wasn’t supposed to live […]
Patient Testimonies
Price Fighting Hero: Victoria Stuessel
Victoria Stuessel is 34- year-old wife and mother living with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative and progressively disabling disease of the Central Nervous System. Like Americans with multiple sclerosis, she relies on high-priced prescription drugs to slow the progress of the disease and treat the symptoms. Victoria has paid up to $7,000 a month for her […]
Patient Testimonies
Price Fighting Hero: Scott Gottlieb
Under Scott Gottlieb’s leadership as the head of the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA has focused on bringing more generic drugs to market to compete with pricier name-brand drugs and help lower prescription drug prices. Competition increases when generic drug and biosimilars are made available and, in turn, the price of patient’s prescription drugs […]
Patient Testimonies
My name is April. My breast cancer drug costs $13,000 a month. This is how I took a stand
My name is April. I live and work in Pensacola, Florida with my wonderful husband and our 11-year-old son. I also have incurable breast cancer. My prescriptions are important. Without them, I’ll die. I’m on a new targeted therapy called Ibrance, which will extend my life and my time with my family — but it costs […]