Don’t Stop Discount Prescriptions

Community health centers such as First Choice Health Centers in East Hartford, Manchester and Vernon provide consistent, preventive care that keeps people healthy and productive, regardless of ability to pay. We keep our patients from making costly emergency room visits for non-emergency issues, and provide cost-effective behavioral health, primary care and dental care. One vital…

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Congresswoman Anna Eshoo and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Member Ken Yeager Discuss Benefits of 340B

The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (VMC) and the County’s entire health and hospital system are facing a potentially catastrophic loss of funding under a pair of proposals currently being considered in Sacramento and Washington. The amount of money at stake ranges from $60 million a year to potentially more than $130 million. The funding…

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People Benefit from 340B Drug Program

The soaring cost of prescription drugs threatens access to life-saving medications for millions of people across the country and thousands of Hoosiers here at home. For these vulnerable patients, safety net health care providers — supported by the 340B Drug Pricing Program — make all the difference. Established in 1992, the 340B program requires pharmaceutical…

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PAUSE Act Ill-Serves Patients

For 25 years, the 340B Drug Pricing Program has made a difference in the lives of millions of Americans. The relatively unknown program, started in 1992, reduces the cost of drugs for many hospitals and providers who serve low-income, underinsured or uninsured patients. It was simple: Drug manufacturers discounted outpatient drugs for these entities in…

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