Maine Beacon – 4/30/2020
Barbara Lawson joined a national, virtual press conference with health care advocates and federal lawmakers from her home in Hollis on Wednesday, to demand any potential drugs to treat COVID-19 are affordably priced. She asked Congress to crack down on attempts from big pharmaceutical companies to profiteer off of these drugs.
Washington – Today, the Lower Drug Prices Now coalition co-hosted a telephone town hall to demand access to affordable COVID drugs for seniors and call on Big Pharma not to profiteer off of the coronavirus pandemic. Prescription drug costs have continued to skyrocket in the last decade, forcing many senior Americans to have to choose between medications they need to survive, and other everyday necessities.
The Progressive Pulse – 4/29/20
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Daily Iowan – 4/29/2020
“A petition on the Lower Drug Prices Now website calls for Congress to require fair and reasonable prices for drugs developed using taxpayer-funded research, prevent drug companies from gaining exclusive patent rights to coronavirus drugs, and disclose details of contracts between the government and drug corporations.”
Maine Beacon – 4/29/2020
Democratic Reps. Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree say they support including safeguards against vaccine and treatment profiteering in future COVID-19 relief legislation.
There is a currently a proposal for legislation to require fair prices for all COVID-19 drugs or vaccines developed with taxpayer funds, require that no drug company be granted exclusivity for any COVID-19 vaccine or drug that may or may not be developed with taxpayer funds, and mandate that pharmaceutical manufacturers disclose how much public money they are using to create treatments and vaccines.
Leaders Urge Congress To Take Action In Next Relief Bill To Ensure All Workers Get Low Cost COVID Medicines
Congressmen Chuy Garcia and Steven Horsford joined Lower Drug Prices Now and frontline workers for a tele-town hall urging Congress to guarantee affordable medicines and vaccines for workers by preventing pandemic profiteering by drug corporations that received taxpayer funds for developing COVID treatments.
New Jersey — Today, Lower Drug Prices Now coalition partners Health Care Voter, New Jersey Citizen Action, and New Jersey Organizing Project joined together to tell Johnson & Johnson not to profiteer off of the coronavirus pandemic.
