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Patient Testimonies
Meet January Price Fighting Hero Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Patients For Affordable Drugs is excited to name Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) as one of our January Drug Price Fighting Hero thanks to her work fighting for American patients. Sen. Klobuchar is a Price Fighting Hero due to her commitment to working across the aisle to help patients. In December, Sen. Klobuchar worked with Sen. […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero Ann Neilson
Ann Neilson is a retired registered nurse from Madras, Oregon and a patient advocate battling high prescription drug prices. Neilson takes Restasis, an eye drop for chronic dry eye for which no generic option is available. The skyrocketing cost of the drug forced her to ration her prescription, putting her at risk for vision loss. […]
Patient Testimonies
Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero Senator Dennis Linthicum
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. Sen. Linthicum and his daughter live with Type 1 diabetes and require insulin to survive. Over the years, he’s watched the […]
Patient Testimonies
My name is Savanna and I am a college student in Nacogdoches, Texas. I suffer from severe allergic asthma as well as psoriatic arthritis with spondylitis and enthesitis. Suffice it to say, affordable medication is paramount to my well-being as a patient with a complex medical history. I currently have health insurance through my parents […]
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Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero Elizabeth Rowley
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. For her unwavering support to help others afford insulin and supplies while people living with diabetes are suffering […]
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Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero Yvanna Cancela
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. For her groundbreaking initiative at a time people with diabetes are skipping doses, losing their eyesight, and going without food due […]
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Price Fighting Hero: Andy Slavitt
Former CMS administrator Andy Slavitt has played an active role in the fight to lower drug prices. Slavitt voiced his support for allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which Patients For Affordable Drugs supports as a key step toward lowering drug prices for all Americans. Slavitt knows lower drug prices and innovation can co-exist. ”So […]
Patient Testimonies
Price Fighting Hero: Rebecca Hall
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. Her only goal after her diagnosis was to stay alive. Statistically, she wasn’t supposed to live […]