Alabama small businesses want choice in health care
Pharmacy Benefit Managers are instrumental partners we have to keep prescription drug costs manageable.
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See recent postsAlabama’s pharmacy deserts are growing—rural communities paying the price
Protecting Alabama’s pharmacies means protecting Alabama’s patients.
Americans pay triple for prescriptions while Big Pharma reaps profits
A consumer advocacy group sounded the alarm that Americans consistently paid the highest prices globally for the same treatments.
September 9, 2025
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See recent postsGov. Ivey must say “No” to prescription drug price hikes for patients
This bill is nothing more than big government run amok, allowing the state to dictate how businesses can and cannot be compensated.
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See recent postsReject Big Pharma’s money-grab that would harm Alabama’s businesses, employees
The proposed changes to PBMs will place an unnecessary financial strain on Alabama’s businesses and families.
Report: Proposed $10.64 prescription fee could cost Alabamians $347M per year
According to AAHC, the proposed fee could result in an estimated annual increase of $900 per person.
February 18, 2025
Trump ends program to lower prescription prices, make disease therapy available
Trump reversed a Biden order that sought to lower drug prices and make gene and cell therapies for cancer and other disease treatment available to Medicaid patients.
Rep. Sewell to host Seniors Resource Roundtable in Linden
Rep. Sewell will discuss Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.
June 17, 2024
Sewell votes to advance Biden’s Build Back Better plan out of committee
The bill still has to pass on the House floor and in the Senate.
White House abandons House bill to reduce prescription drug costs, favors Senate bill
Any hopes that President Trump might support a House bill to lower prescription drug prices by negotiating those prices with drug makers were dashed Thursday after a White House official said the administration supports a Senate version instead. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, wrote a provision into the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now … Continued