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Advocacy on consumer healthcare competition issues aimed at lowering prescription drug costs
Increasing drug prices are harming tens of millions of Americans, but it can be difficult to get basic information and resources on the problem. Below are a number of helpful resources, groups dedicated to reducing prices, and general information.
Co-pay assistance programs and Drug affordability resources
Press Briefing: Patient Groups Challenge Insurers to Stop Forcing Patients to Pay More for Drugs
How Copay Accumulators and Maximizers Have Changed Payers’ View of Copay Support
Copay Accumulators and Insurance Issues
Consumer Letter in Support of the CREATES Act
21 Incredibly Disturbing Facts About High Prescription Drug Prices
Do Drug Benefit Managers Reduce Health Costs?
A Tangled Web: An Examination of the Drug Supply and Payment Chains
Overpatented, Overpriced Special Edition: Lantus (insulin glargine)
The Lobbyist Who Made You Pay More At the Drugstore by Wendell Potter
Addressing Out of Control Prescription Drug Prices: Federal and State Strategies
Battling High Prescription Drug Prices
Curbing Unfair Drug Prices: A Primer for States
Personal Stories of Individuals Harmed by High Drug Prices: Collected by Patients for Affordable Drugs
How Medicaid and CHIP Shield Children from the Rising Costs of Prescription Drugs
Drawing a Line in the Sand: Employers Must Rethink Pharmacy Benefit Strategies
Guest Opinion: Make Lawmakers Cut Kickbacks, Hold Drug Companies Accountable
March 2, 2020 Letter from National Council for Prescription Drug Programs to Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2021, and Notice Requirement for Non-Federal Governmental Plans
February 19, 2019 Letter from PhRMA to Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020
February 27, 2019 Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Richard Neal and Rep. Rank Pallone about the urgency of taking action to lower prescription drug prices
June 21, 2017 Letter from Representatives Elijah Cummings and Peter Welch to President Donald Trump urging policies to reduce drug prices
June 13, 2017 Testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on drug prices
June 12, 2017 Letter from Consumer Action urging the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to investigate PBMs
May 15, 2017 Letter from Representatives in support of legislation reducing drug prices in context of UFAs
April 24, 2017 An Open Letter to Congress in Support of Legislation to Improve Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs
February 14, 2017 Letter from Senators Chuck Grassley, John McCain, and Amy Klobuchar urging HHS importation of prescription drugs from Canada
December 20, 2016 Letter from Senators Sherrod Brown and Al Franken outlining steps to bring down prescription drug costs
July 14, 2015 Letter from Consumers Union, Consumer Watchdog, Consumer Federation of America, Community Catalyst, Consumer Action, U.S. PIRG, National Center for Health Research, and Public Citizen against generic drug manufacturer consolidation
December 2017 Americans Say They Are Suffering as Drug Costs Continue to Rise by Consumer Reports
November 2017 PBM DIR Fees Costing Medicare and Beneficiaries: An Investigative White Paper on Background, Cost Impact, and Legal Issues by Frier Levitt
August 2017 Curbing Unfair Drug Prices: A Primer for States by the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership, the National Physicians Alliance, and the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut
May 2017 Unaccountable Benefit Managers: Real Horror Stories of How PBMs Hurt Patient Care by the Community Oncology Alliance and the Community Oncology Pharmacy Association
May 2017 Selective Transparency: Transparency Efforts Obscure Real Health Care Pricing Issues by the Institute for Policy Innovation
May 8, 2017 Why Our Drugs Cost So Much by AARP
March 2017 Pharmacy Benefit Managers: Market Power and Lack of Transparency by the American Consumer Institute
September 2016 Negotiation Plus: A Framework for Value Based Drug Negotiation by the Center for American Progress
July 29, 2016 Is There A Cure for High Drug Prices? by Consumer Reports
September 2015 Enough is Enough: The Time Has Come to Address Sky-High Drug Prices by the Center for American Progress
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Consumer Groups and Unions Submit Letter in Support of Bill Regulating PBMs and Lowering Drug Prices - 12.16.2019
Manar Says PBM Bill Will Save Taxpayers Millions - 12.12.2019
House Votes to Give the Government the Power to Negotiate Drug Prices - 12.12.2019
Pelosi Drug Pricing Plan Would Save $456 Billion Over 10 Years: Analysis - 12.10.2019
Do Large Pharma Companies Provide Drug Development Innovation? Our Analysis Says No - 12.10.2019
Solicitor General Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Arkansas PBM Case - 12.6.2019
Rep. Schrader Introduces Bill to Increase Drug Price Transparency and Reduce Gaming - 12.5.2019
House to Vote on Pelosi Drug Pricing Bill Next Week - 12.5.2019
The Most Viable Drug Pricing Bill in Congress Is Getting A Makeover - 12.5.2019
Trump's Drug Importation Plan Faces Resistance in US, Canada - 12.1.2019
Ohio Accuses Drug Company of Overcharging for Prescriptions - 11.27.2019
Changes Coming to Grassley-Wyden Drug Bill - 11.22.2019
Pennsylvania House Passes Matzie Bill Making Pharmacy Benefit Managers' Practices More Transparent - 11.21.2019
Ohio Medicaid Still Hemorrhaging Money to Pharmacy Middlemen, Expert Testifies - 11.21.2019
'Hipster Antitrust' Might End the Megamerger Party - 11.19.2019
Top GOP Senator; Drug Pricing Action Unlikely Before End of Year - 11.19.2019
Booker and Sanders Propose a New Federal Agency to Set Drug Prices - 11.15.2019
Legal Challenges Against State PBM Laws May Culminate In Supreme Court Review - 11.14.2019
Voters Say Congress Needs to Curb Drug Prices, But Are Lawmakers Listening? - 11.11.2019
Ohio Lawmaker Proposes Sweeping Restrictions on Pharmacy Middlemen - 11.8.2019
House Vote on Pelosi Drug Pricing Plan Slips To November - 11.6.2019
White House and Pelosi Part Ways on Relief for Drug Prices - 11.5.2019
FDA's Proposed Rule on Drugs Lands At OMB - 11.4.2019
Drug Rebate Dollars Continue to Rise - 11.1.2019
House Democrats Clash Over Pelosi's Drug Pricing Bill - 10.30.2019
House Passes Spanberger Bill to Bring Transparency to Prescription Drug Negotiations - 10.29.2019
Independent Pharmacies Being Driven Out of Business By 'Predatory Middlemen' - 10.21.2019
It's Hard to Lower Drug Prices, If You Don't Know What They Are - 10.19.2019
As Pharmacies Dwindle, Multiple Counties Left in Prescription Drug Desert - 10.17.2019
Key House Committee Passes Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Sweeping Drug Pricing Bill - 10.17.2019
CBO Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Drug Pricing Plan Saves Medicare $345 Billion Over Decade - 10.14.2019
California's New Transparency Law Reveals Steep Rise in Wholesale Drug Prices - 10.11.2019
2020 Democrats Embrace Aggressive Step on Drug Prices - 10.9.2019
Michigan Wants to Save $40 Million By Cutting PBMs Out of Medicaid - 10.8.2019
Buttigieg Unveils An Aggressive Plan for Lowering Drug Prices - 10.7.2019
Lower Drug Costs Now - 10.4.2019
Letter to FTC From Professor Michael Carrier Expressing Concerns About AbbVie-Allergan Merger - 10.3.2019
House Progressives Circulate Letter Seeking Changes to Pelosi Drug Pricing Bill - 9.30.2019
Political Tensions Escalate As Drug Pricing Bills Move Forward - 9.26.2019
Force Drug Companies to Lower Prices - 9.26.2019
You Might Be Surprised At How Far Americans Are Willing to Go Overthrow the Power of Big Pharma - 9.25.2019
Holding Pharmacy Benefit Managers Accountable is Crucial in Delaware - 9.24.2019
Medication Or Housing: Why Soaring Insulin Prices Are Killing Americans - 9.23.2019
Democrats' Drug Price Bill May Be Dead on Arrival - 9.20.2019
Pelosi's Drug Plan Would Let U.S. Negotiate Prices of 250 Medications - 9.19.2019
Lawmakers Ask FTC to Scrutinize Pharma Mergers Over Antitrust Concerns - 9.17.2019
Hey, FTC, Unions Say: AbbVie-Allergan Deal Needs Close Look After 'Anticompetitive' History - 9.13.2019
Consumer Groups, Unions Urge Caution on $63 Billion AbbVie Deal for Allergan - 9.12.2019
Consumer Groups, Unions Express Concerns
About AbbVie-Allergan Merger - 9.12.2019
Pelosi Energizes Battles to Lower Drug Prices - 9.10.2019
The Trump-Pelosi Mind Meld on Drug Costs - 9.9.2019
Congress' Fall To Do List: Guns, Spending, Drug Prices, Trade, Investigations - 9.9.2019
As Congress Considers Lowering Drug Costs, Pharma CEOs Target Key Senators With Campaign Cash - 9.3.2019
The $6 Million Drug Claim - 8.25.2019
Brand-name Drug Prices Rising At Slower Pace, Lower Amounts - 8.19.2019
Community Pharmacies Struggle to Stay Open - 8.17.2019
Cummings, Sanders Reopen 2014 Probe Into Generic Drug Price Fixing - 8.14.2019
The Window for Congress to Do Something on Drug Prices Won't Be Open Forever - 8.14.2019
Canadians Are Hopping Mad About Trump's Drug Importation Plan. Some of Them Are Trying to Stop It - 8.12.2019
Sens. Alexander and Murray Take a Bipartisan Step Forward on Drug Pricing - 8.7.2019
How Trump's Plan to Import Canadian Drugs Would Work - 8.6.2019
2020 Election Creates 'Perfect Storm' For Drug Price Reform By Year-End - 8.5.2019
Cancer Patients Are Being Denied Drugs, Even With Doctor Prescriptions and Good Insurance - 8.2.2019
Congress is Going After Drug Prices. Pharma CEOs Aren't Panicking, Yet - 8.2.2019
Trump Proposes Importing Medicines But He's Really Seeking a Quick Political Fix - 8.1.2019
A Massive U.S. Drug Price-Fixing Probe Has Hit Major Roadblocks - 7.30.2019
Blumenthal Provides Common Sense Solution to Drug Pricing Crisis - 7.30.2019
Proposed Senate Act Would Restrict Pharmacy Benefit Managers - 7.29.2019
Sens. Kennedy, Cassidy, Others Introduce Legislation to Cut Costs of Prescription Drugs - 7.25.2019
GOP Can't Agree on The Government's Role in Forcing Down Drug Prices - 7.25.2019
Senate Committee Advances Drug Price Bill But GOP Opposition Could Doom Effort - 7.25.2019
Summer Setbacks: The Long Road to Lower Drug Prices Hits Some Potholes - 7.24.2019
Kentucky Group Fighting to Stop Insulin Price Hikes - 7.23.2019
Senate Releases Bipartisan Proposal to Lower Seniors' Drug Prices - 7.23.2019
Senate Finance Pushes Ahead on Plan to Address High Drug Prices - 7.23.2019
Drug Price Transparency Prompts Fight Among Democrats - 7.22.2019
CVS-Aetna Merger: AHF Urges Court to Stop 800 Pound Gorilla - 7.21.2019
Protect At All Costs: How the Maker of the World's Bestselling Drug Keeps Prices Sky-High - 7.18.2019
Federal Judge Order Release of Dataset Showing Drug Industry's Role in Opioid Crisis - 7.16.2019
Kamala Harris's Plan to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs, Explained - 7.16.2019
Biden Puts Forth an Elaborate - And Aggressive - Plan To Lower Drug Prices - 7.15.2019
Are Prescription Drug Prices Going Down? - 7.15.2019
Pharmacy Benefit Managers Poised to Grab Money They've Already Paid to Ohio Pharmacists - 7.14.2019
Trump Drug Pricing Setbacks Put Pressure on Congress - 7.12.2019
Letter from Consumer Action and U.S. PIRG Opposing CVS-Aetna Merger - 7.12.2019
Trump Abandons Drug Pricing Proposal That Would Have Ended Certain Drug Rebates - 7.11.2019
President Trump Withdraws Plan to Eliminate Drug Price Rebates - 7.11.2019
Pharmaceutical Mergers and Megamergers Stifle Innovation - 7.10.2019
So Much for Trump's Rule About Drug Prices in TV Ads - 7.9.2019
GOP Senators Raise Concerns Over Potential Deal to Lower Drug Prices - 7.9.2019
Dispute Over Reining in Drug Middlemen Key in Ohio Budget Impasse - 7.8.2019
How Congress Can Make Solid Strides on Drug Pricing Reform - 7.6.2019
Minnesota Aims For More Transparency on Drug Prices - 7.6.2019
Trump Suggests Executive Action on Drug Prices, With a Scope That Is Unclear - 7.5.2019
Trump Craves Big Action on Drug Prices to Take to The Campaign Trail - 7.3.2019
Trump Fixates on Drug Prices As Campaign Looms - 7.2.2019
Maryland's Path to A Prescription Drug Affordability Board - 7.1.2019
Questions Surround the Role of Pharmacy Benefit Mangers In Driving Drug Prices - 6.28.2019
Senate Finance Leaders in Talks On Deal To Limit Drug Price Increases - 6.26.2019
It's a A Big Week For Debates About Drug Prices, Whether Pharma Likes It Or Not - 6.25.2019
We Can Work At State Level to Curb Prescription Drug Prices, Says Assemblywoman Hardy - 6.24.2019
Gov Mills to Sign 4 Bills to Reduce Medication Prices, Including Buying From Canada - 6.24.2019
The Health 202: White House is Reviewing a New Index to Cut Medicare Drug Spending - 6.21.2019
Drug Prices and Innovation - 6.20.2019
Grassley Announces Opposition to Key Trump Proposal To Lower Drug Prices - 6.19.2019
As the Price of Insulin Soars, Americans Caravan to Canada for Lifesaving Medicine - 6.16.2019
Drug Prices Are a Populist Campaign Issue. Here Are The Latest Proposals to Lower Costs - 6.16.2019
Lawmakers Fail to Override 4 Vetoes by Steve Bullock - 6.14.2019
We Either Buy Insulin Or We Die - 6.13.2019
House Progressives Challenge Drug Makers to Come Back to Capitol Hill - 6.12.2019
Senate Judiciary Committee Plans Markup Of Drug Pricing Bill This Month - 6.12.2019
Drug Plan Middlemen Under Scrutiny - 6.12.2019
Florida Governor Signs Bill for Foreign Drug Importation - 6.11.2019
CBO Analysis Doesn't Tell Full Story on HHS' Drug Pricing Reform - 6.10.2019
State Audit to Identify Users of Rx Managers; Senator Seeks Analysis, Study of Complaints - 6.8.2019
No End in Sight to Rising Drug Prices, Study Finds - 5.31.2019
Conflict Brews Over Fairness of High-Stakes CVs-Aetna Hearing - 5.30.2019
A $2.1 Million Drug Price Record is Made to Be Broken - 5.29.2019
Colorado Caps Insulin Co-Pays at $100 for Insured Residents - 5.24.2019
Federal Judge Wants Unrestrained Review of Proposed $69 Billion Merger of CVS, Aetna - 5.23.2019
To Slash Prices, Colorado Moves to Import Prescription Drugs - 5.21.2019
Senate Chairman Says Bipartisan Health Care Package Coming Thursday - 5.21.2019
House Lawmakers Question Whether Transparency Would Fix Drug Prices - 5.21.2019
Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner Fight to Bring Down Drug Prices - 5.20.2019
Collusion Over Drug Prices: Will Generic Manufacturers Pay? - 5.20.2019
FTC Must Tackle Anti-Competitive Drug Rebate Practices - 5.17.2019
House To Vote On Bills To Lower Drug Prices But Republicans Balk at Obamacare Protections - 5.16.2019
CMS Seeks to Limit 'Spread Pricing' by PBMs in Managed Care - 5.15.2019
Governor Vetoes New Regulations on Pharmacy Benefit Managers - 5.10.2019
The Prescription Pricing for the People Act - 5.10.2019
Comments Submitted in Support of CREATES Act on Behalf of Consumer Groups - 5.7.2019
Drug Industry Patents Go Under Senate Judiciary Committee's Microscope - 5.7.2019
House to Vote on Bills to Update FDA’s Purple and Orange Books This Week - 5.6.2019
A Bipartisan Congress Is Moving Quickly on Pharmacy Benefit Managers - 5.1.2019
House Democrats Introduce Moderate Medicare Expansion Plan - 5.1.2019
States Pursue Aggressive Drug Pricing Remedies; PBMs, Big Pharma in Crosshairs - 5.1.2019
Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Increase Transparency, Accountability In Drug Pricing - 4.30.2019
Democrats Search for Drug Pricing Agreement - 4.29.2019
Trump Needs Help from Pelosi To Notch A Big Pricing Win - 4.29.2019
Movement to Reform Pharmacy Middlemen Reaches A Boiling Point Nationwide - 4.29.2019
Specialty Drugs; The New Arena for Pharmacy Benefit Manager Profits - 4.23.2019
In Possible Blueprint for Other States, Ohio Attorney General Floats Proposal to Rein in PBMs - 4.22.2019
Meet the 7 Witnesses Lining Up to Testify Against CVS-Aetna Next Month - 4.22.2019
Time To End Pharmacy Benefit Manager Price Gouging - 4.20.2019
Letter to Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Colin Hayashida Urging Measures Against PBMs - 4.19.2019
Trial in CVS-Optum Secrecy Case Delayed Again - 4.19.2019
Cummings Accuses Republicans of Obstructing Drug Prices Investigation - 4.17.2019
Grassley, Wyden Ask HHS Watchdog to Investigate Middlemen 'Spread Pricing' - 4.10.2019
House Energy and Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on Rising Insulin Prices - 4.10.2019
PBMs Sidestep the Senate's Tough Questions- But Lawmakers Hint At Legislation - 4.9.2019
Why I am Stockpiling Insulin In My Fridge - 4.9.2019
CVS, Cigna, Humana Blame Big Pharma at Senate Hearing for Skyrocketing Drug Prices - 4.9.2019
Oversight Republicans Accuse Cummings of Partisan Drug Pricing Probe - 4.5.2019
Federal Judge to Hear Witness Testimony in Review of Aetna and CVS Merger DOJ Approval - 4.5.2019
Powerful House Committee To Weigh Legislation Aimed At Shedding More Light On High Drug Prices - 4.4.2019
The Absurdly High Cost of Insulin, Explained - 4.3.2019
Key House Lawmakers Reach Bipartisan Deal to Advance Long-Stalled Drug Pricing Bill - 4.3.2019
Ohio Legislators Frustrated At Slow Pace of PBM Reforms - 4.3.2019
Grassley, Wyden Question Role Of Middlemen in Skyrocketing Insulin Prices - 4.2.2019
Why PBMs' Flawed Efforts to Stop Sensible Reform Won't Work This Time - 4.3.2019
Cigna's Express Scripts PBM to Cap Insulin Costs Amid Drug Price Scrutiny - 4.3.2019
Imported Canadian Prescription Drugs Set To Begin Selling in Florida - 3.28.2019
An HIV Treatment Cost Taxpayers Millions. The Government Patented It. But a Pharma Giant is Making Billions - 3.26.2019
White House and Pelosi's Staff In early Talks About Legislation To Cut High Drug Costs - 3.26.2019
Big Pharma's Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices - 3.23.2019
Comments in Support of Minnesota Bill to Regulate PBMs - 3.26.2019
How Maine Is Battling Exorbitant Drug Prices - 3.23.2019
States Are Tackling America's Drug Pricing Problem - 3.23.2019
Kentucky Probes Pharmacy Benefit Managers For Allegedly Overcharging State Medicaid - 3.22.2019
Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $138 Insulin? Germans Get It for $55 - 3.21.2019
Partisan Squabbles Shadow Congress's Efforts to Lower Drug Prices - 3.20.2019
A Drug Pricing Mystery: Who's Behind All the Outrage Over Rebates? - 3.19.2019
Survey: About 1 in 10 Americans Rationing Medicine In Effort to Lower Costs - 3.19.2019
Floridians Could Soon Avoid Soaring U.S. Prescription Drug Prices - 3.18.2019
Comments in Support of Ohio Bill to Regulate Pharmacy Benefit Managers - 3.18.2019
House Energy and Commerce Committee Addresses Seven Bills to Improve Generic Competition - 3.13.2019
Key Senators Call Five Pharmacy Middlemen to Testify About Drug Prices - 3.12.2019
Senate Panel Asks CVS and Four Other Pharma Middlemen to Testify About Drug Prices - 3.12.2019
One GOP Senator Is Urging The Drug Industry To Make Good on Lowering Drug Prices - 3.6.2019
Treat Medicine Like Netflix Treats Shows - 3.5.2019
Liberal Groups Call On Dem Leaders to Go Bigger on Drug Pricing - 2.28.2019
Proposal to Regulate Pharmacy Benefit Mergers Passes Out of Senate - 2.27.2019
Congress Could Have Been Tougher on Drug Executives - 2.27.2019
Pharmaceutical Company CEOS Face Grilling in Senate Over High Drug Prices - 2.26.2019
US Asks Judge to Give Final Approval to Settlement With CVS to Buy Aetna - 2.26.2019
Senators Must Get to the Root of High Drug Prices - 2.25.2019
Kentucky Finds PBMs Are Benefiting From a Lucrative Profit Center - 2.21.2019
Yost Promises More Action Against Pharmacy Middlemen: 'They Took Our Money' - 2.20.2019
Drug Pricing Fight Centers on Insulin - 2.20.2019
Attorney General Dave Yost Seeking $16 Million Repayment From Pharmacy Middlemen OptumRx - 2.19.2019
Kentucky Medicaid Releases Report on Pharmacy Benefit Program - 2.19.2019
A Step Forward on Drug Prices Should Not Be Overlooked - 2.14.2019
Analyst: State's New Drug Setup Still Riddled With Loopholes - 2.10.2019
To Control Drug Prices, States May Have to Face off Against the Feds - 2.10.2019
Time To Remove Texas's Drug Middlemen - 2.10.2019
Dems Unveil Bill for Medicare To Negotiate Drug Prices - 2.7.2019
As Trump Calls on Congress to Lower Drug Prices, Some Democrats Cheer. Others Scoff. - 2.6.2019
PBMs Launch Counterattack Following Trump Administration's Plan to End Drug Rebates - 2.6.2019
Democrats Bat Away Trump's Olive Branch on Drug Pricing - 2.5.2019
Uncertainties Remain In Trump Rebate Plan - 2.4.2019
Testimony in Support of Montana's SB 71- Bill to Regulate Pharmacy Benefit Managers - 2.1.2019
DeWine Wants Crackdown On Pharmacy Middlemen, Managed Care Groups - 2.1.2019
Bill Goes After Middlemen In Effort To Lower Prescription Drug Prices In Montana - 2.1.2019
Trump Officials Move To Lower Drug Prices By Passing Rebates On To Patients - 1.31.2019
The Trump Administration Is Taking On Middleman That Inflate Drug Prices - 1.31.2019
CVS Bought Your Local Drugstore, Mail-Order Pharmacy and Health Insurer. What's Next, Your Hospital? - 1.31.2019
On Both Ends of Capitol, Both Parties Warn Big Pharma on Drug Prices - 1.29.2019
Comprehensive Reform to Lower Prescription Drug Prices - 1.29.2019
Drug-Pricing Policies Find New Momentum As 'A 2020 Thing' - 1.29.2019
Why Drug Prices Keep Going Up-And Why They Need to Come Down - 1.29.2019
Indian Tribe Joins Big Pharma At the Supreme Court, Defending a Lucrative Deal - 1.26.2019
Pharmacy Benefit Managers Marked Up Generic Drugs for NY Medicaid, But Where Did The Money Go? - 1.24.2019
Drug Middlemen Got Big Markup In New York, Pharmacists Say - 1.24.2019
Baker Outlines Steps to Lower Drug Prices - 1.24.2019
Looking to 2020, Democrats Take On Prescription Drug Prices - 1.24.2019
U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016, Study Finds - 1.22.2019
Big Pharma Lobby Group Spent Record Amount As Reform Push Grows - 1.22.2019
Hill Drug Pricing Scrutiny Starts With Patients, Researchers - 1.22.2019
Maryland Could Become First State to Cap Prescription Drug Costs - 1.22.2019
Secret 'Rebate Trap' Strategy Blocks Patients from Buying Generic Drug - 1.18.2019
FDA Directs Dwindling Resources Toward Reviewing New Drugs - 1.17.2019
HHS Secretary Azar is Courting Capital Hill on Drug Prices - 1.17.2019
Dem Chairman Cummings Meets With Trump Health Chief To Discuss Drug Prices - 1.15.2019
Prescription Drug Pricing Strategy: Where Is the Money Going? - 1.14.2019
House Democrats Launch Drug Pricing Probe Into a Dozen Major Health-Care Companies - 1.14.2019
All Congress's Ideas for Bringing Down Prescription Drug Prices, Explained - 1.14.2019
Skoufis Targets Prescription Drug Pricing - 1.11.2019
As Congress Returns, Lawmakers Rush to Detail Drug Pricing Agendas - 1.9.2019
Pharmacist Fights for Livelihood, Drug Cost Transparency - 1.9.2019
Democrats Look to Unlikely Ally on Drug Pricing: Donald Trump - 1.4.2019
This Bottle of Pills Costs $20 in One State and $130 in Another - 1.4.2019
Drugmakers Raise Prices on Hundreds of Medicines - 1.1.2019
As Drug Prices Soar, Policymakers Eye Dose of Government Intervention - 12.20.2018
Judge Seeks Monitoring of CVS and Aetna During Antitrust Review - 12.18.2018
Warren Bill Would Get Feds Into Generic Drug Manufacturing - 12.17.2018
Consumer Groups Submit Comments Opposing CVS and Aetna Merger - 12.17.2018
DeWine Must Make Medicaid PBM Reform a Top Priority - 12.16.2018
Establishment Looks to Crush Liberals on Medicare For All - 12.10.2018
Investigation of Generic 'Cartel' Expands to 300 Drugs - 12.9.2018
Ohio Leads the Way As States Take On 'Pharmacy Benefit Manager' Middlemen - 12.7.2018
Merged CVS-Aetna Won't Extend Transparency, Competition Guarantees - 12.4.2018
U.S. Judge Concerned Over Government Nod for CVS Deal - 12.4.2018
Drug Rebate Walls Should Be Dismantled by the FTC's Antitrust Arm - 12.4.2018
FOIC Still Fighting for Disclosure of Insurance Acquisitions - 12.3.2018
A Return to 'Dollars and Sense' Antitrust Enforcement - 11.30.2018
Senator Jeff Merkley Targets Big Pharma With Bill to Lower Prescription Drug Prices - 11.29.2018
Attacking Monopoly Power Can Be Stunningly Good Politics, Survey Finds - 11.28.2018
CVS Creates New Health-Care Giant As $69 Billion Merger With Aetna Officially Closes - 11.28.2018
Chronically Ill, Traumatically Billed; The $123,000 Medicine for MS - 11.28.2018
Grassley's Move to Finance Committee Could Bolster Drug Price Efforts - 11.26.2018
Why Prescription Drug Prices Have Skyrocketed - 11.26.2018
America's Monopoly Problem, In One Chart - 11.26.2018
The Monopolization of America - 11.25.2018
More Americans Trust Democrats Than GOP to Lower Drug Prices - 11.21.2018
CVS Now Expects Aetna Acquisition to Close After Thanksgiving - 11.20.2018
The Bernie Sanders-Trump Mind Meld on Drug Costs - 11.20.2018
Axios Deep Dive on Drug Prices - 11.19.2018
Pfizer to Raise Prices on 41 Prescription Drugs Next Year Despite Pressure From Trump - 11.16.2018
Rep. Peter Welch on Drug Prices, the Potential for Bipartisan Action, and a Broken Market - 11.9.2018
House Election Results: Democrats Take Control - 11.7.2018
CVS Expects Deal With Aetna to Close By Thanksgiving - 11.6.2018
Prescription Drug Prices: A Bitter Pill in the Midterm Elections - 10.31.2018
Pharma's 'Come-to-Jesus' Moment: The Industry Braces for a Pelosi Speakership and Democrats' Drug Pricing Agenda - 10.30.2018
Abuse of U.S. Patent System Drives High Drug Prices - 10.27.2018
Trump Proposed to Lower Drug Prices By Basing Them on Other Countries' Costs - 10.25.2018
Claire McCaskill is Campaigning As Pharma's Sworn Enemy--And That's the Way She Wants It - 10.24.2018
State Regulators Probe CVS Drug Price Fluctuations - 10.23.2018
Oregon Health Experts Call for Transparency, Competition, State Action on Drug Pricing - 10.23.2018
Winter Is Coming': Companies Brace For Flurry of Investigations - 10.22.2018
Trump's Trade Deal Includes Major Win For Pharma - 10.2.2018
President Trump Unveils Plan to Lower Prescription Drug Prices - 5.11.2018
Trump Surrenders In the War on Drug Prices - 5.11.2018
AT&T, Novartis CEOs Apologize for Payments to Michael Cohen - 5.11.18
Trump to Deliver Major Address on Drug Prices, But Advocates Predict Small Steps - 5.4.2018
The CVS-Aetna Merger Will Be A Disaster for Small Drugstores - 12.15.2017
Drug Industry Lawsuit Shows It Wants To Keep Patients in the Dark - 12.15.2017
Follow the Money to Understand How Drug Profits Flow - 12.15.2017
Experts Tell Congress How to Cut Drug Prices. We Give You Some Odds - 12.12.2017
When Buying Prescription Drugs, Some Pay More With Insurance Than Without It - 12.9.2017
Drug Companies Sue California Over Drug Price Transparency Law - 12.8.2017
CVS-Aetna Merger is a Robber Baron's Dream Come True - 12.6.2017
New Mega-Deal Shows How Health Insurers Are Taking Over Your Access to Health Care - 12.7.2017
Trump Is Mum on Report Showing How We Can Reduce Sky-High Drug Prices - 12.7.2017
The CHIP Program is Beloved. Why Is Its Funding In Danger? - 12.5.2017
Will CHIP Crumble? States Are Getting Nervous - 12.4.2017
Trump Administration is Taking on Drug Prices - But Not Drug Companies - 11.24.17
HHS Pick At Odds With Trump's Rhetoric on Drug Prices - 11.15.17
What Would Happen If Medicare Started Negotiating Drug Prices - 11.14.17
Drug Costs in the Spotlight With Trump's Pick for Health Secretary - 11.14.17
Trump Picks Ex-Pharma Executive Azar to Lead HHS - 11.13.17
Trump Talks Tough But Little Action Seen on Drug Prices - The Hill 11.1.17
CVS-Aetna Deal Could Have Same Result As Telecom Mergers - Higher Prices - Los Angeles Times 10.31.17
CVS Bid for Aetna Followed Long Hunt - Wall Street Journal 10.28.17
Why CVS Health Would Want to Buy Aetna - Washington Post 10.26.17
Frustrated With Trump, Democrats Introduce Drug Pricing Bill - The Hill 10.25.17
California Just Passed A Law To Reign In Drug Prices. Here's Why It's Unlikely to Make Much Difference - STAT 10.24.17
AMA Study Says Competition Among Health Insurers is Shrinking - Modern Healthcare 10.24.17
When Paying for Drugs With Insurance Costs More Than Paying Cash: Bill Would Require Pharmacists to Let Their Customers Know - Massachusetts Live 10.23.17
Cancer Drug Prices Rising Far Faster Than Inflation - Business Insider 10.18.17
Patents for Restasis Are Invalidated, Opening Door to Generics - New York Times 10.16.17
Trump Renews Attacks on High Drug Prices - Politico 10.16.17
Have High Drug Prices Finally Reached a Tipping Point? - Healthline News 10.12.17
Battle Over Drug Prices Shifts Back to the States - The Hill 10.11.17
California Governor Signs Drug Pricing Transparency Law - Reuters 10.9.17
Senator McCaskill Drafts Bill in Response to Allergan Patent Maneuver - Reuters 10.5.17
California Bill Would Compel Drugmakers to Justify Price Hikes - National Public Radio 10.4.17
Scott Gottlieb Rocketed to the Top of FDA. He May Keep Rising - STAT 10.4.17
Grassley Pressing to Include Drug Pricing Measures in CHIP Reauthoriztion - Morning Consult 10.3.17
Pfizer Exposes the Sordid Underbelly of Drug Pricing - USA Today 10.3.17
The Pharma Industry Tried to Justify Drug Prices. We Fact-Checked Them - Huffington Post and Kaiser Health News 9.29.17
Absent Federal Action, States Take the Lead on Curbing Drug Costs - Washington Post 9.29.17
Massachusetts Could Shake Up Drug Pricing - Bloomberg 9.28.17
Congress Should Focus on Reducing Drug Prices - Politico 9.25.17
Three GOP Senators Oppose Graham-Cassidy, Effectively Blocking Health Care Bill - NPR 9.25.17
Everyone Says We Must Control Exorbitant Drug Prices. So, Why Don't We? - Kaiser Health News 9.25.17
Repeal First, Ask Questions Later - Axios 9.20.17
The Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Puts Millions of Americans at Risk - Washington Post 9.19.17
California Drug Price Bill Sweeping in Scope, Lacking in Muscle - California Healthline 9.18.17
Why Are Drug Prices So High? We're Curious, Too - New York Times 9.17.17
Bill to Shed More Light on Prescription Drugs Heads to Governor Jerry Brown's Desk - Los Angeles Times 9.13.17
Drug Plans Are Fighting States to Keep Prices in the Dark - Bloomberg 9.13.17
Sanders Will Introduce Universal Health Care, Backed by Fifteen Democrats - Washington Post 9.12.17
California Assembly Passes Drug Price Transparency Bill - San Jose Mercury News 9.11.17
Michigan Democrats Looking to Take On Prescription Drug Costs - WWMT 9.9.17
Misguided Regulation Helped Create the Drug Policy Crisis - The Hill 9.6.17
Drug Lobbying Groups PhrRMA, BIO File Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Nevada's Insulin Transparency Law - Nevada Independent 9.1.17
Sick of Big Pharma's Greed - U.S. News and World Report - 8.30.17
Lansing Democrats Submit Plan to Stop Price Increases - WEMU - 8.22.17
Breakthrough Cancer Drug Could Be Astronomical In Price - USA Today - 8.22.17
Why Medicare-for-All is Good for Business - Fortune - 8.21.17
With New Allies and Approaches, California Lawmakers Try Again to Confront High Prescription Drug Prices - Los Angeles Times - 8.20.17
House Democrats Start Multiple Sclerosis Probe - Bloomberg - 8.17.17
Patients for Affordable Drugs Launches Campaign Demanding Fair Pricing of New Novartis Cancer Drug - Patients for Affordable Drugs - 8.17.17
How To Get Lower Drug Prices Now and In the Future - The Doctor Weights In - 8.15.17
Trump Tweets Up a Storm on Drug Prices But Delivers Little Change - Politico - 8.15.17
Drug Money Part 2: A Look at 2017 State Legislative Efforts to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices - The Source - 8.3.17
Congress Passes Bill to Fund FDA Drug, Medical Device Reviews - Bloomberg - 8.3.17
Why Are Drug Prices So High? The Fight Over a Price-Gouging Bill - International Business Times - 8.2.17
Democrats Are Putting Drug-Pricing Controls at the Heart of Their Economic Platform - Business Insider - 7.24.17
High Prescription Drug Prices Hurt the Black Community - Black Press USA - 7.20.17
The Trump Administration Says a New Plan Will Cut Drug Prices. It's Not That Simple - Capitol Weekly - 7.16.17
Growth in Generics Doing Little to Curb Drug Prices - Modern Healthcare - 7.10.17
Louisiana Considers Radical Step to Counter High Drug Prices: Federal Intervention - By Carolyn Johnson - Washington Post - 7.5.17
Facing Revolt on healthcare bill, U.S. Senate Republicans Delay Vote - By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan - Reuters - 6.28.17
CBO Score Projects 22 Million to Lose Coverage Under Senate Republicans' Health Care Bill - By Garet Williams - Vox - 6.26.17
The Better Care Reconciliation Act: The Senate Bill to Repeal and Replace Obamacare, Explained - By Sarah Kliff - Vox - 6.22.17
Senate Health Care Bill Includes Deep Cuts to Medicaid - By Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan - New York Times - 6.22.17
House Dems Slam Trump's 'Betrayal' on Drug Pricing - By Nathaniel Weixel - New York Times - 6.21.17
Draft Order on Drug Prices Proposes Easing Regulations - By Sheila Kaplan and Katie Thomas - New York Times - 6.20.17
Which Side Should We Believe in Battle Over Ohio Drug Prices? - By Alan Johnson - Columbus Dispatch - 6.18.17
Trump Plan on Drug Prices Likely to Be Friendly to Drug Industry - By Brandon Carter - The Hill - 6.17.17
Trump Administration Prepares a Drug Pricing Executive Order, Sources Say - By Anna Edney and Justin Sink - Bloomberg - 6.15.17
Nevada Passes Insulin Drug Pricing Transparency Bill - By Lydia Ramsey - Business Insider - 6.15.17
The GOP Health Care Bill Will Hurt Americans. Bad Backroom Deals Won't Cure That - By Andy Slavitt - USA Today -6.15.17
In Drug Price Hearing, Congress Tries to Answer Some Basic Questions - By Meg Tirrell -CNBC - 6.13.17
States Are Starting to Stand Up to 'the New Big Tobacco' Because Washington Won't - By Linette Lopez - Business Insider - 6.13.17
The New War on Overpriced Drugs - By David Ferry - Wired - 6.10.17
Prescription Drug Crisis? 28 Million Americans See Spike in Drug Prices - By Ali Veshli, Allison Girvin, Ben Popken, Michael Cappetta - NBC News
Outcry Over EpiPen Prices Hasn't Made Them Lower - By Charles Duhigg - New York Times - 6.4.17
'More Is Possible': A Bunch of States Are Taking on High Drug Prices, and It Could Start Hitting Drugmaker Profits - By Lydia Ramsey - Business Insider - 6.4.17
Pfizer Hikes U.S. Price of 91 Drugs By Average of 20 Percent in 2017 - Financial Times - 6.2.17
What Is the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act? By Monica Robins - WKYC - 5.31.17
Drug Lobbyists' Battle Cry Over Prices: Blame the Others By Eric Lipton and Katie Thomas - New York Times - 5.29.17
A Look at Major Drug Pricing Proposals - By Katie Thomas - New York Times - 5.29.17
Hogan Lets Drug Price-Gouging Bill, Dozens of Others Become Law Without Signature By Michael Dressler - Baltimore Sun - 5.26.17
Here's What Trump's Head of the FDA Wants to Do About High Drug Prices By Lydia Ramsey - Business Insider - 5.26.17
Nevada Is Close to Passing a Landmark Bill to Tackle High Drug Prices By Lydia Ramsey - Business Insider - 5.25.17
Prescription Drug Prices Can Vary Widely By Store; Here are Some Utah Examples By Todd Tanner - Fox 13 5.24.17
Trump's Quiet on Drug Pricing, But His FDA Isn't By Max Nisen - Bloomberg 5.24.17
Policymakers Face Pressure to Act on Drug Pricing By Andrew Siddons - Roll Call 5.15.17
The White House Budget Director Dropped a Hint About How Trump Could Bring Drug Prices Down By Carolyn Johnson - Washington Post 5.12.17
Prescription Drug Prices Surged Almost 9% in 2016 By Kelly Gooch - Becker's Hospital Review 5.10.17
AARP Looks At High Cost of Prescription Drugs By Claire McInerny - Benefits Pro 5.2.17
The Latest Drug Prices to Go Up? The Ones for Your Kids By Shefali Luthra - Washington Post 4.21.17
How to Stop Drug Price Gouging By Tim Wu - New York Times 4.20.17