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Pfizer: Enormous Profits at the Expense of Patients
In mid-January Patients For Affordable Drugs released a report that examined the toll Pfizer’s price hikes have on patients. Today, Axios reported that “no drug company raised prices more frequently than Pfizer.” The company raised the price of its drugs 2,316 times between 2015-2019. Given the new revelations, we’re adding an addendum to our original […]
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My name is Denise and I am a 66 year old resident of Gardiner, New York. I have a long history of dealing with cancer, and my story is not an easy one. In 2011, I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. After going through therapy, I was declared in remission. However, it wasn’t […]
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Pfizer needs to be held accountable.
My name is Meg Jackson-Drage and I am a 50-year-old living in Magna, Utah with my husband and family. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia years ago, and also live with neuropathic pain. I have a history of medical conditions that limit my mobility and require costly medication. I was living in suburban Chicago when I […]
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Meet January Price Fighting Hero Leah Clark
When she was 12, doctors diagnosed Leah Clark with Crohn’s Disease, celiac disease, and psoriasis. Now a college student from Columbus, Wisconsin, Leah currently takes Remicade, an infusion drug administered via IV. Remicade costs around $13,000 a treatment — a price Leah knows could be devastating to her life and her future. Leah adamantly believes […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]