[1]NNU - Medicare for All!



This year, many people in the United States will see a lower price for
insulin — but it’s not because the pharmaceutical companies chose to lower
costs out of kindness.

Thanks to the organizing inside and outside of Congress, insulin was
capped at $35 per month for Medicare recipients under the Inflation
Reduction Act. Then, the American Rescue Plan Act contained a provision
that removed Medicaid rebates for insulin for these drug manufacturers.

Together, these actions by Congress and President Biden forced Big Pharma
to just cut the price of insulin altogether, after years of outrageous
price-gouging.

While this is a relief for many patients across the country who rely on
insulin, it doesn’t solve the high prices of other prescription drugs,
health insurance premiums, co-pays, and other structural problems with our
current health care system — which would be solved by a single-payer
system like Medicare for All.

Let us be clear: the pharmaceutical companies never wanted to see these
changes happen. In 2022, Big Pharma spent a record amount of money on
lobbying to convince politicians to oppose allowing Medicare to negotiate
drug prices. They were dealt a rare defeat with these measures to cap
insulin prices, but their influence on our democracy remains outsized.

But together, we’re working to change that. Through our Patients Over
Profits campaign, we’re building a movement of politicians committed to
rejecting campaign contributions of $200 or more from the for-profit
health care industry, including Big Pharma.

[ [link removed] ]Sign up to join our Patients Over Profits special volunteer teams today
to get involved and help us get Big Pharma and other for-profit health
care interests out of our politics!

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With enough political will, we can overcome the opposition of the
corporate health care industry and establish Medicare for All and
guarantee health care — including insulin and other life-saving drugs —
for ALL across the country.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All



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