Oct 2, 2019 | Featured, Federal Issues, News
Patients seeking relief from the high cost of health insurance are expressing disappointment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s long-awaited government price negotiation plan for its failure to address sky-high out of pocket health care costs. “H.R. 3 was a long time...
Sep 25, 2019 | Actions, Featured
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Sep 20, 2019 | Featured, News
H.R. 3 was a long time in being released, but won’t take nearly as long to reject. It fails the central purpose of any drug price reform: Out of pocket relief for patients and ready access to the treatments they need and deserve. It opts instead to create a body...
Sep 11, 2019 | Featured, News
Two patients with the same symptoms receive the same treatment at the same hospital. Same bill, right? Patient Patti Joiner learned the hard way that insurance isn’t health care when she visited a Texas emergency room along with her mother experiencing the same flu...
Sep 9, 2019 | Featured, News
Get ready for higher out-of-pocket costs in 2020. Last week, the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services quietly announced new co-pay rules that will allow insurance companies to increase patients’ out-of-pocket costs in 2020....
Jun 4, 2019 | Actions, Featured
There’s a scientific breakthrough happening right now for patients who are fighting diseases like cancer, colitis and rheumatoid arthritis. They are called Biosimilars. These new medicines are almost exact scientific copies of the drugs so many of us are all taking...
