Demand that Congress repeal the law that bans Medicare from negotiating prices with drug companies. The VHA and Medicaid negotiate, and they get savings. A Congress or a president that cared about the affordability of health care for working Americans would disregard heavy political donations from the pharmaceutical industry and repeal this ban.
Why is this important?
The outrageous rise in the price of the Epipen caused a national scandal. My husband and I are over seventy now and the few medications we need are available as generics, but we have friends who take expensive medications. The prices of some cancer medications force people to make unacceptable choices between death and financial ruin.
