Democratic and Republican Voters Agree on Lowering Extreme Drug Prices

A recent poll suggests that President Biden needs to take firm action on skyrocketing prescription drug prices. Prescription drug price controls are one of the only bipartisan concerns where both Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government needs to step in. According to Frederick Isai, Executive Director of Families USA, real legislative changes need to happen to make prescription drugs affordable.

“Seventy-two percent of voters think it’s very important for President Joe Biden and Congress to take action to lower prescription drug costs this year and 92% said lowering drug costs was very or fairly important to them, according to a survey conducted by Families USA and released Wednesday (March 17). Sixty-seven percent of voters worried lawmakers won’t go far enough to lower drug costs, including a majority of Republican voters surveyed.” Read more here.

(Source: Maya Goldman, Inside Health Policy, 3/17/21)