“Paying for the prescription medications our families need has long been a struggle for America’s moms. At MomsRising, we hear every week from moms who are forced to make impossible choices between rent and food, on the one hand, and the medications that will keep their children or other family members healthy or even alive, on the other. Because of big pharma’s price gouging, too many families have been forced to ration or go without needed prescription medications, go into debt to pay for them, or go without food and shelter because a child has diabetes, a parent has cancer, or a family member needs medications that are simply unaffordable. For them, for all of us, it was welcome, long overdue progress when Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, finally allowing Medicare to begin negotiating for lower drug prices. We are already seeing progress as a result.

“The lawsuits by Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, the U.S. Chamber of Congress, and now PhRMA, which aim to end the government’s ability to negotiate for lower prices, are self-serving and baseless. These lawsuits are designed to further feed big pharma’s greed and allow drug companies to continue the price gouging that is costing America’s moms and families their financial security, their health, and their lives. The courts must turn them back.”