Americans want state policymakers to lower out-of-pocket costs for prescription medicines

• Patient-concerns continue to grow over ever-increasing healthcare-costs. But, there are some solutions that the overwhelming majority of Americans agree on. That’s according to Reid Porter—the senior director of public affairs at the “Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America”, or “PhRMA”… “TOO MANY AMERICANS STRUGGLE TO ACCESS AND AFFORD HEALTHCARE. AND, OUR RECENT POLL FOUND THAT MOST AMERICANS—AT LEAST 86-PERCENT IN EVERY STATE—AGREE THAT LOWERING OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS SHOULD BE A TOP POLICY-PRIORITY. AMERICANS SUPPORT COMMON-SENSE SOLUTIONS TO HELP PEOPLE PAY LESS FOR THEIR MEDICINES, AND TO STRENGTHEN OVERSIGHT OF HEALTH-INSURERS AND THEIR MIDDLEMEN—ALSO KNOWN AS ‘P-B-M’S’, OR ‘PHARMACY-BENEFIT MANAGERS’. IT’S A SIMPLE QUESTION: IF THEY DON’T PAY FULL PRICE FOR MEDICINES, WHY SHOULD YOU?” • Porter also explains what elected-officials at the state-level can do, to help people better afford their medicines… “STATES LIKE WEST VIRGINIA, ARKANSAS, AND INDIANA ARE LEADING THE WAY IN HAVING HEALTH-INSURANCE COMPANIES, AND THEIR MIDDLEMEN, ‘SHARE THE SAVINGS’ WITH PATIENTS—BY REQUIRING THEM TO PASS REBATES AND DISCOUNTS DIRECTLY TO PATIENTS. THESE POLICY-CHANGES CAN BRING REAL IMPROVEMENTS, AND MORE ACCOUNTABILITY, TO THE HEALTHCARE-SYSTEM—WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYONE DESERVES. “THERE ARE MORE REFORMS THAT STATE-POLICYMAKERS CAN MAKE, TO HELP PATIENTS PAY LESS AT THE PHARMACY-COUNTER. AND, WE DESCRIBE THEM AT ‘P-H-R-M-A’-DOT-ORG-SLASH-‘STATES’; THAT’S ‘PHRMA’-DOT-ORG-SLASH-‘STATES’.”