Year of Affordable Healthcare

Patient Priority Initiative

The Year of Affordable Healthcare Patient Initiative features a first-hand look at the struggle patients and their families face with the enormous and sometimes insurmountable expense of prescription medicines.  

Rob Day
Port Huron, Michigan

Rob Day spent half his life waiting for a medicine to treat his rare condition. Now that he has it, he can’t afford to keep it.

Barbara Akpan
Chicago, Illinois

Barbara Akpan has spent her life caring for others. But, in 2000, Barbara had to start caring for herself.

J. Katz
Bergen County, New Jersey

J. Katz knows she is lucky to be able to afford biologics. But she doesn’t think luck should have anything to do with it.

April Bird
Montgomery, Alabama

April Bird struggles to pay for her medicine every month. Congress has the power to help.

Anne Collins
Arlington, Virginia

Anne Collins has taken expensive medicines for her debilitating condition the last eight years. But she knows other patients like her have not had that option.

If you would like to lend your voice to the Patient First initiative, please feel free to contact the Year of Affordable Healthcare at info@yearofaffordablehealth.com

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