Our prescription for the nation: Make medicines and health care affordable now
We are on the cusp of taking some of the largest steps in recent history to make medicines more affordable for our patients, and it is critical that we successfully pass the legislation needed to achieve this as an issue of health equity.Health provisions in the budget reconciliation package currently being considered by the U.S. Senate include allowing Medicare to negotiate the prices of a small handful of prescription medicines, protecting Medicare beneficiaries from spending more than $2,000 out-of-pocket each year on prescription medicines and ensuring that the cost of prescriptionRead More
