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Lord God, medicine in America is a mess! We need divine intervention.
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Prescription drugs are costly in the United States. In an effort to lower the prices Americans pay at the pharmacy, President Trump pledged to end “the global freeloading that forces American consumers to subsidize lower prices in foreign countries.”

Unfortunately, a new plan from the Department of Health and Human Services undermines this goal.

HHS Sec. Alex Azar unveiled a new Medicare proposal that simply copies the foreign price-control policies that have enabled other countries to underpay for drugs. Not only does the change fail to hold “freeloading” countries accountable — it will undermine access to life-changing medicines here in the United States. . . .

The single-payer healthcare systems in these countries are what make such price controls possible. When the government is the sole administrator of prescription drugs, it has extraordinary bargaining power to secure below-market prices.

American patients pick up the tab by shouldering much of the burden for global research and development. This is unfair — and something that President Trump is right to condemn. . . .

Patients often lose access to the best medicines when their government adopts price controls. Of the drugs launched in the last seven years, only 60 percent were available in Sweden. And only half made it to patients in Canada.

In the United States, meanwhile, nearly 90 of those medicines were available. Americans will no longer enjoy generous access to the newest drugs if we embrace price controls. . . .

Importing the socialist pricing tactics of foreign governments is no way to stand up for Medicare patients. The Trump administration should explore policies that ensure all patients pay a fair price at the pharmacy counter.

(By Peter J. Pitts, a former Food and Drug Administration associate commissioner, is president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. Excerpted from The Houston Chronicle)

 

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Elizabeth
April 15, 2019

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Patricia Poole
March 3, 2019

We agree together LORD that by Your Spirit wisdom and decernment will cause those with the power to veto ,nullify and do away with harmful changes to our policies and laws.

Sherry
March 3, 2019

Then he said to me, “This is what the Lord says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
Zechariah 4:6 NLT

Lord, guide this nation in very area for your glory. May your Holy Spirit give great insight and wisdom to those in position of leadership & power.

In the matchless name of Jesus, I ask. Amen.

Felicia Penner
March 2, 2019

Lord God, we ask that those who work for us in Government would be led by what is right instead of what is expedient. I lift up Medicare and pray your will over it, and pray that all would be able to get their medications that they need. May our Presidents advisors see the discrepancy here and suggest that the bill be vetoed. In Jesus name, Amen

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