Drug prices have become a pressing issue globally, with many medications becoming increasingly unaffordable for patients. High drug costs can prevent individuals from accessing essential treatments, leading to serious health consequences. Petitions on this topic often call for pharmaceutical companies to lower prices, increase transparency in pricing, and regulate the industry to ensure fair access to medications.
One petition with thousands of signatures urges lawmakers to implement price controls on life-saving drugs, highlighting stories of individuals facing financial hardships due to exorbitant medication costs. Another petition focuses on holding pharmaceutical companies accountable for price gouging and unethical pricing practices, emphasizing the need for regulations to protect consumers.
By exploring and supporting these petitions, you can contribute to the fight for affordable healthcare and advocate for policies that prioritize public health over corporate profits. Take action today to make a difference in ensuring equitable access to essential medications for all.
I personally know a family that this drug has helped save lives for. No one should have to make the decision to not save their child due to financal lack. Pharmaceutical companies and the government can and should pay to save these lives.
My daughter was born a month prior to the FDA approval of Zolgensma and was fortunate enough to receive it for free through the expanded access program. It has changed her life completely in countless ways and allowed her to do everything she sets her mind to. Every child born with SMA should have the same chance at life she was afforded.
We have 3 SMA kids. Their treatment was always delayed by red tape due to the price of the drug. It would be nice if some people higher up would be more willing to realize this is a drug that saves lives, and not just a money maker.
I am a RN for 40 rears. If PBMs regulate prices which put independent pharmacies out of business, the very many readmitted patients often low educated, low income will not have access to rural pharmacies which cost less to drive to who can also give better prices than chain pharmacies do.
Please stop the misinformation that PBMs advertise and help all in Alabama by passing SB99.
Hospitals are not reimbursed if a Medicare patient is readmitted within 30 days. If we do make it easier for patients to succeed in better health things will continue getting worse never better and those to profit from sick populations keel getting richer!
CVS Caremark, who controls prescription benefits for 1 in 3 Americans, forced me and 150,000 other heart patients off the blood thinner we had been stable on for years purely for non-clinical, profit motivated reasons. Adverse events resulted and medical expenses increased. Patients need protections
One of my medications, a biologic, cost $1398. The convoluted system where a certain percent discount has to be offered for the insurance/PBM to have the medication on the formulary has the billed amount as $11,211. If you Google the cost of the medication, it is around $1398. There is a fake price that only affects you if you are uninsured or a corporation/government paying the bill. The FTC has the information on PBMs overcharging by thousands and keeping rebates.
My local pharmacy was closed, merged into another small pharmacy. This year, that one is out of network, so I paid 6 times what it cost last year for the same drug. And I see the foreboding signs of sparsely stocked shelves.
My son has an autoimmune disease-ulcerative colitis and requires a daily pill called Rinvoq that has given him his life back! However, insurance/PBM requires caretakers/patients to jump thru many hoops, hours on the phone and constant worry to get the medication they need. It should not require tears and lots of $$$to get meds delivered. I will have everything in order, Rx on file and prior authorization and every time I call to order the medicine it can never be ordered in 1 phone. Multiple phone calls, explaining to an agent who doesn’t care or have answers. It is not right and something needs to change. UC is debilitating to a person. Bloody stools, multiple 18-30 bathroom visits, weight loss, depression, no quality of life. Rinvoq has healed my sons colon. A pharmacist should not be allowed to deny medicine over the ordering GI doctor either!