the Biden Administration must take on Big Pharma

 

We’re facing a prescription drug crisis in America: One in four Americans rations medication due to cost Americans pay pharmaceutical companies more for the world's 20 top-selling drugs than the rest of the world combined Meanwhile, Big Pharma rakes in over $1,000,000 in profits per hour Yet despite drug corporations charging ever-higher prices on medicines — and Big Pharma profits soaring as a result — our elected officials aren’t doing anything about it. It doesn’t have to be this way: President Biden’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra, has the power to take on prescription drug monopolies! Using existing law, he can take steps to increase generic competition for expensive treatments, breaking Big Pharma monopolies and lowering prices Secretary Becerra can — himself, without relying on a divided Congress — dramatically reduce what Americans pay for key medicines to treat cancer, COVID-19, and HIV. But Secretary Becerra is not yet showing any signs of using his authority to lower prescription drug prices. So Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Angus King,  Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Rep. Joaquin Castro, Rep. Sara Jacobs, and Rep. Katie Porter are collecting signatures on a letter urging him to act. Please send an email to your members of Congress and ask them to sign on to this letter. We need as many members as possible to sign on to show strong support and convince the Biden Administration to take on Big Pharma. Contact your representative and senators right away >> Thanks for doing your part to break Big Pharma monopolies, George Public Citizen P.S. To learn more about how you can get involved with the fight for affordable medicines, please join an upcoming teach-in on Thursday, June 16. People’s Action, one of Public Citizen’s closest partners, is coordinating the event.

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