Prescription Drugs

• KFF Health News: Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Steer Americans to the Costly Choice

  September 21, 2023: Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira — about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, known as biosimilars, ...Read more >

• Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act With ARA

  September 13, 2022: This historic law gives Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices, caps insulin prices and out-of-pocket drug costs for people with Medicare, and does so much more for seniors – and it’s all thanks to the activism of Alliance member...Read more >

• Inflation Reduction Act helps Arizona seniors with health care costs

  September 01, 2022: Retirees in Arizona struggle to divide monthly social security payments of $1,667 between rent, food and healthcare bills. Provisions in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act seek to ease some of that budget strain by introducing caps on ra...Read more >

• HISTORIC VOTE: U.S. House Passes Build Back Better Act to Lower Health Care and Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Cut Pollution that Causes Climate Change

  November 19, 2021: Dora Vasquez, Executive Director of the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement after the U.S. House passed President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (BBB), sending the sweeping health care, jobs and climate legislative...Read more >

• Arizona Retirees Cheer House Action to Lower the Price of Health Care, Prescription Drugs, and Create Good Paying Jobs

  November 19, 2021: Saundra Cole, President of the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. House passage of the Build Back Better Act: (Phoenix) — “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Reps. Gallego, Grijalva, Kirkpatri...Read more >

• Retirees Applaud House Passage of Build Back Better Act that Lowers Drug Costs, Funds Home Care, Adds Guaranteed Hearing Benefit to Medicare

  November 19, 2021: Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding passage of President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376, in the U.S. House: “The Alliance for Retired Americans applauds the House passage o...Read more >

• Retirees Urge Sen. Sinema Not to Turn Her Back on Arizona Seniors

  September 21, 2021: The following statement was issued by Saundra Cole, President of the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding media  reports that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema opposes President Biden’s plan to lower prescription drug costs and will not support a r...Read more >

• Hearing Exposes Greed of Drug Corporation AbbVie

  May 24, 2021: According to a study released on May 18 by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, the pharmaceutical corporation AbbVie has raised prices 470% in the United States for its widely used drugs Humira and Imbruvica over the past two decades. The ...Read more >

• KHN: As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

  February 16, 2021: Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels. These bills, sponsor...Read more >

• KHN: Seniors Face Crushing Drug Costs as Congress Stalls on Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets

  January 07, 2021: Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst — priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply — only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations. Clark, 57, a former insurance agent who lives in Bixby,...Read more >