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Oregon State Sen. Dennis Linthicum and Patient Adovcate Ann Neilson are Patients For Affordable Drugs' December Price Fighting Heroes

Besides her work stateside, Ann has flown to Washington, DC twice with Patients for Affordable Drugs to share her story with her federal legislators and demand a decrease in prescription drug prices.

Patients For Affordable Drugs is happy to name Dennis Linthicum, a Republican state senator from Oregon, a December Drug Price Fighting Hero for his leadership in the fight to lower prescription drug prices.

Price fixing by generic manufacturers is illegal, and patients are suffering because of rising prices.

Maintaining access to the same level of coverage is vital for me, and it’s hard to deal with the fear of losing that coverage when I know drug corporations could simply lower the list price of their drugs and I wouldn’t have to live in fear.

Nevada State Senator Yvanna Cancela and T1International’s Elizabeth Rowley honored for their efforts to lower drug prices.

Elizabeth Rowley has channeled her experiences as a person living with Type 1 diabetes into global activism for her community, founding the nonprofit T1International to help assure patients have access to life-sustaining insulin, supplies and medical care.

Yvanna Cancela is a state senator from Nevada and the lead sponsor of a first-in-the-nation insulin pricing transparency law to hold drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers accountable for never-ending price spikes that hurt patients.