For this week's blog, we were asked to find a political proposition or some sort of legislation that has been recently proposed. I began to investigate and came across the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act. Similar to California's Prop 61 which was on the ballot this last November, this initiative was created to lower the costs of prescription drugs in the state of Ohio to the same prices that the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) pays. This act is currently pending but has been supported entirely by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation who has donated $540,000, according to followthemoney.org. Michael Weinstein, the President of the AIDS Healthcare Foundations. strongly believes that this must come to an end. The cost of these speciality medications, especially those used to treat HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and cancers are rapidly increasing and hurting everyone except for the drugmakers and pharmaceutical companies. Good news is, there have been no reported opposing campaigns (yet) so hopefully this Act will come to life after the November 2017 ballot and put an end to these outrageous prices forever.
image source: http://statenews.org/post/after-legal-battle-proposal-cap-drug-prices-appears-headed-fall-2017-ballot-ohio
sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Drug_Price_Standards_Initiative_(2017)
https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=42824056&default=ballot
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