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On April 28, 2021, President Biden gave his first address to Congress and announced the American Families Plan (AFP or the Act). The AFP follows the 1.9 trillion-dollar stimulus, the American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law on March 11, 2021. The AFP seeks to invest approximately 1.8 trillion dollars in various issues facing families, including childcare, pre-school, paid family leave, Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax cuts, nutrition support, and free community college. According to the White House’s Fact Sheet on the AFP (Fact Sheet), the AFP “is an investment in our children and our families helping families cover the basic expenses that so many struggle with now, lowering health insurance premiums, and continuing the American Rescue Plan’s historic reductions in child poverty.” This blog post discusses the health-related portions of the AFP and provides an overview of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which
Monday, May 10, 2021
On April 28, 2021, President Biden gave his first address to Congress and announced the American Families Plan (AFP or the Act). The AFP follows the 1.9 trillion-dollar stimulus, the American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law on March 11, 2021. The AFP seeks to invest approximately 1.8 trillion dollars in various issues facing families, including childcare, pre-school, paid family leave, Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax cuts, nutrition support, and free community college. According to the White House’s Fact Sheet on the AFP (Fact Sheet), the AFP “is an investment in our children and our families helping families cover the basic expenses that so many struggle with now, lowering health insurance premiums, and continuing the American Rescue Plan’s historic reductions in child poverty.” This blog post discusses the health-related portions of the AFP and provides an overview of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which seeks to lower prescription
Some diabetic patients pay around $1,000 a month for insulin, a drug vital to their survival.
U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Kissimmee, and state Sen. Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, are calling on Congress to lower prescription drug costs.
They joined the advocacy group Protect Our Care Florida during a webinar on Friday and talked with people struggling to afford insulin because of the high prices companies ask for the diabetes drug.
Chris Clark of Tallahassee talked about the numerous episodes of debilitating illness he experienced in the early years of his diabetes diagnosis because he couldn t afford insulin.
He did the math: He said he has had to pay about $1,000 a month for his medicine for 16 years.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers grappled with the issue of high drug costs at a subcommittee hearing of the House Committee on Education and Labor on Wednesday.
President Biden gave a boost to Democrats by broadcasting his support for price negotiation in his first address to a joint session of congress in late April. We all know how outrageously expensive drugs are in America, he said. Let s give Medicare the power to save hundreds of billions of dollars.
Everyone at the hearing agreed that lowering costs of prescription drugs is important what they couldn t agree on is how to do it.
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Some diabetic patients pay around $1,000 a month for insulin, a drug vital to their survival.
The U.S. House is considering a bill to give Medicare the power to negotiate lower costs for prescription drugs like insulin, a life-saving diabetes medicine that can cost families thousands of dollars a year.
U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Kissimmee, and state Sen. Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, are calling on Congress to lower prescription drug costs.
They joined the advocacy group Protect Our Care Florida during a webinar on Friday and talked with people struggling to afford insulin because of the high prices companies ask for the diabetes drug.