Fact Sheet
Families Need Relief from Runaway Prescription Drug Costs: State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards Can Help
States play a critical role in reining in prescription drug costs for individuals and families across the country. Enacting legislation that creates a prescription drug affordability board (PDAB) with...
View MoreCapping Prescription Drug Copays Is Not Enough – Congress Must Help America’s Families by Addressing the Root Causes of High and Rising Drug Costs
The high and rising cost of prescription drugs in the United States is a significant health and economic problem for families in our country. As federal policymakers continue to address this problem, ...
View MoreOne-Pagers: Investing in Our Moms – Three Ways State Medicaid Programs Can Improve Maternal Health
The United States is in the midst of a maternal health crisis. Women are dying at rates the U.S. has not experienced since the 1960s. Maternal mortality rates increased by nearly 38% year-over-year fr...
View MoreCongress Must Act: Families Across America Should Pay the Same Price for the Same Health Care Services
Americans are struggling with an affordability crisis and rising health care costs, yet our health care system is full of wasteful spending that does not improve people’s health. One prime example o...
View MoreCongress Should Codify and Strengthen Hospital and Plan Price Transparency Regulations
People should know the price of health care services at a hospital or health care facility before they receive care, whether it is an X-ray, an MRI or a surgery. Yet, health care is one of the only se...
View MorePennsylvania Poll Shows Universal Concern for Cost of Prescription Drugs, Support for Government Action and Prescription Drug Affordability Board
Addressing high and rising drug costs across the country is a key to ensuring high-quality, affordable health care and improved health for all. And it is an issue affecting millions of families regard...
View MoreThe Reality of Prescription Drug Innovation: Drug Manufacturers Limit Innovation to Protect Patents and Profits
For the first time in history, thanks to prescription drug price reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act, the federal government can negotiate directly with big drug companies to lower the outrageous p...
View MoreLost Medicaid or CHIP? Learn How to Get Health Insurance
Lost Medicaid or CHIP? Learn How to Get Health Insurance Beginning April 1, 2023, and over the next 12 months, millions of people with Medicaid or CHIP will be renewing their coverage. Some will no...
View MoreKeeping Health Insurance Affordable in Illinois: Why We Need Robust Rate Review
For many individuals and small businesses, the cost of health insurance is unaffordable, unpredictable and likely to keep rising — unless Illinois takes action now. Unlike in many other states, Illi...
View MoreCongress Should Lower Insulin Costs by Addressing Pricing Abuses in Addition to Capping Co-Pays
Insulin is a critical life-saving and life-sustaining medication for millions of families, and yet the cost remains unaffordable for far too many because of unnecessary price gouging by drug manufactu...
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