My name is Aarolyn McCullough, a resident of Oak Park, Michigan, a liver transplant survivor, and a patient living with diabetes. 

For my conditions, I am prescribed Everolimus, Zortress, and Ozempic, which I can thankfully afford due to manufacturer assistance and health coverage benefits I receive through my former employer: the United States Postal Service. But without such assistance, a situation which I have faced before in the past, I would be paying about $2,000 per month for all of my medications. In these circumstances, I’ve either had to change prescriptions or cope with the fact that I may die, and that is a fact that runs constantly in my thoughts. 

As a retired individual, this should not be my reality. As an American citizen, I believe we deserve lower cost prescription drugs because we are simply overpaying compared to the rate other countries pay for the same or equivalent medications.