The 340B Program Cares About Michigan. PhRMA Cares About Money.
The truth is that patients across Michigan depend on the 340B Program to provide them with affordable and accessible lifesaving healthcare, despite the misinformation PhRMA keeps spreading. With how PhRMA keeps raising drug prices, the program is more critical than ever.
Protecting the 340B Program means protecting your neighbors across Michigan who rely on 340B to access healthcare.
340B combats the greed of pharmaceutical companies by helping healthcare providers navigate out-of-control drug costs, offering scarce state and federal resources to Federally Qualified Health Centers, cancer hospitals, HIV/AIDS clinics, critical access hospitals, children’s hospitals, tribal health centers and other covered entities.
Without 340B, millions of patients across Michigan would lose access to lifesaving and preventive healthcare.
Who Do You Trust: The Program Providing Comprehensive Healthcare Across Michigan Or PhRMA?
PhRMA claims that 340B raises drug prices, while they’re the ones setting exorbitant price points for new drugs. Are they really worth your trust?
Meanwhile, healthcare providers are using 340B savings on a daily basis to care for patients in vulnerable communities, ensuring that individuals and families receive medication and care, regardless of their ability to pay.
Protecting the 340B Program means protecting your neighbors across Michigan who rely on 340B to access healthcare.
Hear from Michigan providers about how 340B strengthens healthcare servicing for patients statewide:
340B Meets Michigan’s Healthcare Needs
Michigan needs access to affordable healthcare, made clear by the state’s high rates of childhood poverty, food insecurity, and healthcare deserts.
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17.8% of children under 17 live below the Federal Poverty Line in Michigan.
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More than 1 in 10 families in Michigan experience food insecurity.
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Northern Rural Michigan residents have little to no access to healthcare providers, ranging from primary care to maternity, prenatal, and behavioral health.
The 340B Program works hard in Michigan to:
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Provide low-cost healthcare to patients statewide.
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Ensure the continued operation of service lines, including obstetrics and inpatient psychiatric care.
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Build financial assistance programs for low-income families.
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Fund mobile health clinics.
Act now, and lend your support to Protect 340B.
Send a message to your policymaker today asking them to #Defend340B.
More On How 340B Works
First established in 1992 through bipartisan legislation, the federal 340B drug discount program operates on the simple principle of requiring drug companies to provide drugs at a discounted price to certain types of non profit hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers and clinics that, in turn, use their 340B savings to provide affordable healthcare in their communities. That reinvestment in patients and communities without taxpayer dollars has made the 340B program successful.
Without a significant and sustained effort to raise public awareness of the 340B program’s benefits, the program faces an uncertain future. Providers and their healthcare industry supporters have worked to defend the 340B program, recognizing its actual value in providing patients with affordable care, but they need YOUR help.