CALL TO ACTION: Prescription Drug Affordability Bill SB 1023

MAAPC Members & Followers

It is late in the session but this bill needs support to pass favorably and help our patients with their healthcare costs! Please use the links ASAP if you have the time. The more the Assembly hears from providers, the better chance we have of passing this legislation.

Thanks for your help! Dr. Elaine Crain, DNP, MSN, RN, FNP. MAAPC President.

Recently the Health Facilities & Pharmaceuticals Subcommittee of the House Health and Government Operations Committee voted to pass an amended version of HB 1194, the Drug Cost Commission bill. Soon we (the Prescription Drug Affordability Coalition) believe it will go to a vote in the House, then the Senate Finance Committee and Health Subcommittee, and then the Senate. We are pleased that, if enacted, the amended bill will continue to move this issue forward and build for future General Assembly Sessions. To make that happen, we need your help!

TAKE ACTION

First, please click here to send an email to your Senators and Delegates to urge them to support the amended bill and oppose weakening changes from the drug corporations!

Second, please check to see if your Senators are on the Finance Committee and if so, call their office. It is especially important that members of the Committee hear from their constituents!