[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Stop Medicare Price Gouging

[John Thielking]

FYI


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From: "Michael Phelan, Social Security Works" <michael.phelan at socialsecurity-works.org>
To: pagesincolor at yahoo.com 
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 8:32 AM
Subject: Stop Medicare Price Gouging
 


 
John,
The Alliance for Retired Americans is launching a campaign we think you'll be interested in. One common-sense way to save Seniors money without cutting Medicare benefits is to stop the prescription drug handout negotiated in Medicare Part D.
Join Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA) by demanding Congress stop allowing big drug companies to price gouge Medicare beneficiaries!
Thank you,
Michael Phelan
Social Security Works
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From: The Alliance for Retired Americans
Subject: Stop Big Pharma Price Gouging!

  

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Did you know that Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Did you know that since the creation of Medicare Part D, American taxpayers no longer pay the lowest government-negotiated prices for the drugs needed by low-income seniors and people with disabilities? 

There is a common sense solution to reduce these high drug costs and eliminate the excessive profits of big drug companies. Click here to tell Congress to support it!

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) have introduced the Medicare Drug Savings Act, S. 740 in the U.S. Senate and H.R.  1588 in the U.S. House of Representatives, that would eliminate this special deal for brand-name drug manufacturers. This legislation would prevent the big drug companies from charging the federal government higher drug prices for low-income Medicare beneficiaries than they charge for Medicaid.  The Medicare Drug Savings Act would save the federal government more than $141.2 billion over 10 years, money that helps all Medicare beneficiaries.

Please click here to ask your Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor this critical legislation.

Currently, the federal government negotiates lower prices both for veterans and Medicaid beneficiaries.  However, when low-income Medicaid beneficiaries were transferred to the Medicare program, price-gouging drug companies received a huge windfall, because they stopped offering the government the lowest, discounted rate.

Click here to ask your Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor the Medicare Drug Savings Act.
       
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