From Canadian imports to price caps, WA lawmakers seek ways to cut drug prices
Several measures aim to help reduce patients’ out-pocket-costs for medications, including for lifesaving insulin.
The legislation Stone-Vekich supports, Senate Bill 6087, had a public hearing last month before the Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee. The measure, sponsored by state Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, limits a patient’s out-of-pocket expenses to $100 for a 30-day supply of insulin.
Public testimony was also open for a slate of other proposals Keiser sponsored that would attempt to make prescription drugs more affordable.