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Commitment to Seniors Applauds Reintroduction of the EPIC Act to Fix the Biden “Pill Penalty”

Washington, D.C. — February 25, 2025 — Commitment to Seniors, a project of American Commitment, applauds Representatives Greg Murphy, Don Davis, and Richard Hudson for re-introducing the Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act. The EPIC Act fixes the Biden “pill penalty,” which discourages investment in small-molecule medicines and limits seniors’ access to cutting-edge treatments. A new national poll by McLaughlin & Associates highlights the urgency of this issue: 86% of senior voters are concerned that the IRA’s “pill…

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Kill Biden’s “Pill Penalty”

Congress should repeal every word of the Biden Inflation Acceleration Act, including the price controls on prescription drugs. The price controls will undermine the incentives to develop new cures across the board but are especially harsh on pills. Pill-form so-called “small molecule” drugs can be subjected to government price controls as soon as nine years after FDA approval, while “large molecule” drugs, which are those that come as injections or intravenously, are allowed 13 years…

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Congress Must Fix the Biden ‘Pill Penalty’

Last year, the catastrophically misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a punching bag on the campaign trail for raiding about $270 billion from Medicare prescription drug spending to fund green energy and electric vehicle giveaways and other Democratic special interest priorities. Less well-known is that the bill also contained a raid-within-a-raid on small molecule drugs subject to price controls four years earlier than biotech drugs. It’s called the “pill penalty” because it diverts research dollars…

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New Poll Reveals Seniors’ Overwhelming Concerns with the Biden “Pill Penalty”

CONTACT: Michael DeSantis michael@americancommitment.org A majority of older voters support the EPIC Act, which would fix the IRA’s pill penalty by granting small-molecule medicines the same 13-year exemption from government price setting as other medicines receive. Washington, D.C. —  February 18, 2025 — Commitment to Seniors, a project of American Commitment, released a new national poll today conducted by McLaughlin & Associates among 1,600 likely voters 55 and older. The survey reveals older voters’ overwhelming concerns…

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Commitment to Seniors Launches Campaign Urging Congress to Pass the Senate Finance Committee’s Bipartisan PBM Reforms in Any Congressional End-of-Year Legislative Package

CONTACT: Michael DeSantis michael@americancommitment.org Passing S.2973 and S.3430 Will End the PBM Kickback Scheme and Deliver Real Savings to Seniors Washington, D.C. — November 12, 2024 — Commitment to Seniors, a project of American Commitment, has launched a national and multi-state grassroots mobilization and paid media campaign urging Congress to ACT NOW and pass the Senate Finance Committee’s bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) reforms, S. 2973 and S. 3430, to deliver real savings to seniors.…

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The Biden-Harris Administration is Stealing from Medicare

The Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats touted the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) to seniors to lower inflation and health care costs. However, it has proven to accomplish the exact opposite, and now it’s up to lawmakers on Capitol Hill who wisely opposed the law in 2022 to address its failures and help end the raid on our nation’s seniors. Nearly two years after its passage, the IRA has diverted nearly $260 billion from the…

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End The Raid On Florida Seniors’ Medicare

In 2022, the Biden-Harris administration and their liberal allies in Congress forced the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) onto the American public despite unified resistance from the GOP. The Republicans were right then, and they are right now. Democrats’ empty promises of reduced Medicare costs and better health care for seniors have been fully exposed. Older Americans nationwide, including Florida’s five million Medicare enrollees, are now feeling the impact. Liberals rallied behind the Biden-Harris IRA…

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Commitment to Seniors Unveils New Digital Video Advertisements Following Additional Biden-Harris Raid on Medicare

CONTACT: Michael DeSantis michael@americancommitment.org Washington, D.C. — August 14, 2024 — American Commitment’s Commitment to Seniors project has unveiled new digital video advertisements for its national and multi-state “End the Raid” on Medicare petition, grassroots mobilization, and paid media campaign. The advertisements, running in nine states and nineteen districts, underscore the adverse impacts of the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Medicare beneficiaries and taxpayers. Watch two of the ads here: Representative Tom Emmer…

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