Dec 6, 2019 | Federal Issues, Letters Submitted
Patients Rising NOW has joined a coalition of patients, doctors, policy experts, and providers in opposing HR 3708. HR 3708, the Primary Care Enhancement Act of 2019, would impose price caps and detrimental exclusions on the most successful model extant in healthcare...
Dec 2, 2019 | Featured, Federal Issues, News
Health insurance companies would no longer be allowed to unilaterally force patients to fail first on cheaper and less effective treatments, under a bipartisan proposal gaining widespread support on Capitol Hill. The Safe Step Act would implement new guidelines to aid...
Nov 18, 2019 | Federal Issues, News
Both doctors and patients detest the broken insurance system that increases costs and decreases access to healthcare. Some caregivers have grown so frustrated by insurance red tape that they’ve stopped taking health insurance altogether in favor of direct primary...
Sep 18, 2019 | Federal Issues, News
More than 100 patient organizations are speaking out and expressing concern with the Trump administration’s plan to end a medical deferred action program, which allows immigrants to delay deportation proceedings on medical grounds. “This change essentially terminates...
Aug 20, 2019 | Federal Issues, News
If you’re feeling the pinch of skyrocketing out-of-pocket health care costs, you aren’t alone. Across the country, millions of patients with “good” health insurance are being hit with higher out-of-pocket costs every time they go to access their health care. By one...
Aug 6, 2019 | Federal Issues
Many state, non-profit and corporate prescription assistance and access programs (PAPs) help patients obtain free or nearly free medicines if they qualify. Serving as a safety net for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance or whose insurance does not...
