“Today, we are watching our drug pricing system break under the weight of Medicare’s inability to negotiate lower drug prices."

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.

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.

Andy has called out the pharmaceutical industry, noting that, despite massive corporate tax cuts, the drug industry has refused to lower prices.

Rebecca Hall lives with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, a progressively disabling cancer. At 29 years old, Hall’s goals to advance her career and grow old with her husband evaporated when she received the results of a cancer scan.