I am your constituent and we all deserve a healthcare system that works for all of us. A new Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions report, released this week, found that drug companies tend to set far higher prices in the US than in other countries and that drug prices here skyrocket over time and decline in those other countries. Moreover, The companies have hiked the starting price of their most innovative prescription drugs the report found in a review of Food and Drug Administration approvals. The median launch price of those drugs was about $14,000 between 2004 and 2008; it was more than $238,000 between 2019 and 2023.
Pretty soon drugs will just become unobtainable in the US. The answer is Universal Healthcare, like HR 3421, public insurance paying private providers for all of us. I want you to get that passed.
Until you do, I’d like you to write legislation that allows the US government to negotiate drug prices for all health insurance plans that are federally related, including Affordable Care Act plans, Medicaid, and Medicare. That covers about 108 million of us. Thank you.
