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Urge Your U.S. Rep. to Support HR 3, A Bill That Allows Medicare to Negotiate for Lower Drug Prices

By MUUSJN on Saturday, December 7th, 2019

Call Your U.S. Representative 1-202-224-3121 (capitol switchboard) Tell your Representative to Vote for H.R. 3 “The Lower Drug Costs Now Act” THE PROBLEM Prescription drug companies charge Americans three, four or even 10 times what they charge people in other countries for the same drugs. These companies subject Americans to unjustified drug price hikes that are far above the rate of inflation. The soaring cost of insulin is an example of out of control prescription drug prices that are crying for a solution. More than 100 million people are diabetic or pre-diabetic. Diabetes is reportedly the highest cost disease in the U.S., more than $300 billion per year. Insulin was invented almost 100 years ago in 1922. Yet, between 2012 and 2016 insulin costs have […]