Saturday, May 23, 2020

This bill will halt pharma profiteering during COVID-19

It is disgraceful that Big Pharma's profits are prioritized over the health of children, families, and seniors throughout our country.

Tell Trump and Congress:

"End monopolies on life-saving drugs, and pass the COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act now. We must ensure treatments and vaccines are available at a fair price to everyone."

There are more than 1.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and nearly 100,000 deaths.

Each one of these numbers represents a unique individual with hopes, dreams, fears, and families just like yours or mine. We must never become lost in the figures or numb to the statistics. Instead, we must fight to ensure everyone can get treatment today and a vaccine—regardless of their ability to pay—once it's developed.

For far too long, Big Pharma has placed its own profits and greed above the health and safety of the American people. That's why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs even as our tax dollars fund their development.

Add your name! Join Drug Prices Are Too High and our coalition partners in demanding an end to Big Pharma's monopolies on life-saving drugs.

Skyrocketing drug prices are the product of government policy—policies that give drug companies patent monopolies, but don't require they sell medications at fair prices.

This must end. We are living through a global pandemic. It is disgraceful that Big Pharma's profits are prioritized over the health of children, families, and seniors throughout our country.

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Jan Schakowsky have introduced the COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act to ensure any and all treatments and vaccines are available at a fair price to every American.

Sign if you agree! Tell Donald Trump and Congress to end monopolies on life-saving drugs, and pass the COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act now.

That's not all. Donald Trump could stop drug price gouging at any time by ordering the federal government to break monopolies on any drug. This would save lives.

The Trump administration will stay cozy with Big Pharma unless we demand that it act in the interests of the people of this country. Let's unite our voices, and make sure the White House and Congress hear us.

Thanks,

Alex Lawson
Drug Prices Are Too High

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