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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 […]

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Price Fighting Hero: Victoria Stuessel

Victoria Stuessel is 34- year-old wife and mother living with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative and progressively disabling disease of the Central Nervous System. Like Americans with multiple sclerosis, she relies on high-priced prescription drugs to slow the progress of the disease and treat the symptoms. Victoria has paid up to $7,000 a month for her […]

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Price Fighting Hero: Scott Gottlieb

Under Scott Gottlieb’s leadership as the head of the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA has focused on bringing more generic drugs to market to compete with pricier name-brand drugs and help lower prescription drug prices. Competition increases when generic drug and biosimilars are made available and, in turn, the price of patient’s prescription drugs […]

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My name is April. My breast cancer drug costs $13,000 a month. This is how I took a stand

My name is April. I live and work in Pensacola, Florida with my wonderful husband and our 11-year-old son. I also have incurable breast cancer. My prescriptions are important. Without them, I’ll die. I’m on a new targeted therapy called Ibrance, which will extend my life and my time with my family — but it costs […]

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Drug Prices are Putting My Son's Health at Risk

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is the most common fatal genetic disease of childhood, affecting 1 in 3,500 boys.  In 2007, I found out that my 8-year-old son was one of them. We sought the best medical care, but all the doctors could offer for this relentless muscle wasting disorder was a corticosteroid, an anti-inflammatory medicine that […]

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Stacy's Story

My name is Stacy Ransom. I’m from Southern California and I live with Crohn’s Disease. Six months before doctors gave my condition a name, I began to experience excruciating, debilitating pain every time I took a bite of food. Because eating sent shock waves through my system, I rapidly lost weight. I worked at a […]

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Can I tell you a story?

  My name is Pam Holt. I’m 68 years old, a mom, a grandmother, and a retired first and second grade teacher. I’ve traveled from my home in Indiana to Washington, DC this week. Before I tell you why, and what I hope to do, I want to tell you what led me here. In […]