Here’s what you need to know
1. Lowering prescription drug costs is the second priority in health for Americans behind reducing out-of-pocket costs.
2. Americans across the political spectrum believe lowering costs of prescriptions should be a top healthcare priority for the current administration and Congress:
- 64 percent of Democrats agree
- 58 percent of Independents agree
- 60 percent of Republicans agree
3. Americans favor most actions to lower drug prices:
- 92 percent support allowing the federal government to lower drug prices
- 87 percent want to make it easier to bring generic drugs to the market
- 86 percent wish drug companies were required to disclose how they set their prices
- 78 percent want to limit prices for high cost drugs
- 72 percent support allowing Americans to buy prescription drugs from Canada
4. Drug prices stand on a pedestal as a bipartisan priority, according to the poll’s findings.
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