Healthcare Justice Campaign: Taking on Big PhRMA and the Insurance Industry and Winning!
Tomorrow, President Biden will announce the ten drugs that Medicare will focus on in price negotiations with drug manufacturers! Watch our social media posts and pages for more details! The authority to negotiate lower prices was one of the most significant features of the Inflation Reduction Act which our members and leaders (and progressives all over the country) worked to pass a year ago, starting with the Build Back Better campaign in late 2021. In other great news here in Maryland, the Prescription Drug Affordability Board is getting close to making recommendations for an Upper Payment Limit system that could go into effect next year. We submitted a letter last week to their Stakeholder Council urging them to urge the Board to push the legislature to support a robust Action Plan that will start bringing down the amount of money our state is paying and that we’re paying as individuals for medicines.
We’ll keep pushing on the state and national level for accountability from drug companies even as they bring lawsuits and put pressure on Congress to back down on the promise of the IRA and raise objections to the work of our Prescription Drug Affordability Board and similar boards in other states.
Thanks to People’s Action and our sister organizations in other states we’re also collectively taking on health insurance companies who keep raising their rates, denying people’s care, and putting our lives at risk. We’re organizing public pressure campaigns, calling for Senate hearings about these horrible practices, and supporting individuals in their attempts to overturn insurance company denials. Take 2 minutes to watch this: Care Over Cost explainer video
Share your experience or concern about care denials here.
Last but not least, join us! We’re going to have a fun, power packed September, October and November building this campaign and we need you to help make it happen. Sign up! Contact Patty to learn more.
