Tonight, as President-elect Biden unveils his vision for COVID recovery, Health Care Voters across the country are looking to the incoming administration and congressional Democrats to deliver on their campaign promises and do everything possible to end this pandemic. Read More
Health Care Voter released the following statement from Campaign Director Rosemary Enobakhare in honor of Justice Ginsburg. Read More
This evening, Health Care Voter launched the Our Lives On The Line Digital Town Hall Series with a national conversation about how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the weaknesses in our health care system and what Congress and the Trump administration need to do about it. Read More
Today, the House sent the third in a series of coronavirus relief packages to the president’s desk, which features 30 times more funding for corporate bailouts than it does for the so-called health care ‘Marshall Plan’ aimed at bolstering hospitals and community health centers during this pandemic. Unsurprisingly, the president is planning to sign the bill into law immediately. Read More
Today, a broad coalition of health care and patient advocates, including Health Care Voter, Protect Our Care, Health Care for America NOW, MomsRising and the Alliance for Retired Americans announced a weeks-long campaign to push for passage of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act. Read More
The cost of insulin is skyrocketing and people, especially Black women, are dying because they cannot afford or don’t have access to vital medication. There is not enough being done to lower the prices of prescription medications that could mean life or death for so many African Americans that depend on it to live. Read More
My 7-year-old son Dakota lives with Type 1 diabetes and uses Humalog, the insulin produced by Eli Lilly. In America, 193,000 young people live with diabetes. Ask these kids’ parents, and they’ll tell you heartbreaking stories about working multiple jobs to pay for insulin, or rationing insulin because it’s too expensive – sometimes fatally. Read More
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that it would begin testing and approving generic versions of insulin in an effort to lower prices and increase availability of the life-saving drug. Read More
In the United States, 30.3 million people live with diabetes. One in four of those people — about 7.5 million people — is forced to ration insulin because of the high price of this life-saving drug. Proverbs 15:27 tells us: “He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house.” Read More
The World Health Organization is hoping to drive down the cost of insulin by encouraging more generic drug makers to enter the market. The organization hopes that by increasing competition for insulin, drug manufacturers will be forced to lower their prices. Read More