Cut Government drug costs

Protect PATIENTS AND TAXPAYERS

Yes on Prop 34 will close an exploited loophole in our health care system that has diverted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars away from patient care AND drastically reduce Medi-Cal prescription drug costs.

Facts on Prop 34

Fact 1

Yes on Prop 34 will drastically cut prescription drug costs by permanently authorizing the State of California to negotiate lower Medi-Cal prescription drug prices.

Fact 2

Prop 34 stands to save taxpayers millions of dollars more every year by requiring corporate pharmaceutical distributors to spend at least 98% of the taxpayer funds they receive through the drug discount program in California on directly treating patients.

Fact 2

Yes on Prop 34 will stop drug pricing scams that cheat taxpayers and divert millions intended for patients. This initiative requires tax dollars be spent on patients and puts scammers out of business in the State of California.

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STOP THE DRUG PRICING SCAMS

Prop 34 stops egregious financial abuse of the taxpayer-funded drug discount program in California.

Over 30 years ago, the federal government began offering discounted prescription drugs and other treatments to uninsured and low-income patients. However, healthcare corporations across the country have used a legal loophole to game the system and divert money from the discount drug program to pet projects that have done nothing to benefit patients: wasting money on renting out football stadiums to put on private concerts, giving their executives multimillion dollar salaries, paying for naming rights on sports stadiums, spending millions on lobbying and dumping millions more into political campaigns.

Worse yet, some of these same corporations that get billions in taxpayer dollars have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on housing projects that are often run like slums. An LA Times investigation found that residents at several of these housing projects were forced to live in squalid conditions, exposed to roach and bed bug infestations, putting the health and safety of tenants at risk.

Prop 34 will prevent this abuse from occurring in California and requires discount drug program dollars generated in California to be used for their intended purpose: helping patients.

SOLUTION: VOTING YES ON PROP 34 WILL PROTECT PATIENTS

YES on Prop 34 will close the massive loophole in our health care system that has allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to be diverted away from desperately needed patient care.

YES on Prop 34 will force the worst abusers of the drug discount program back to the program’s original mission to provide healthcare to low-income patients.

Prop 34 requires the program’s worst offenders to spend 98% of their taxpayer-generated revenues on direct patient care.
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What Supporters Are Saying

Yes on 34

“Accountability and transparency is needed in the 340B program to ensure public healthcare dollars are directly spent to help low income and vulnerable patients secure the medications they need. For too long, bad actors have utilized this program to generate revenue without any obligation to use the revenue to assist those the 340B program was specifically designed to serve. It does a disservice to all of us when good meaning programs are abused. Passing the Protect Patients Now Act is one step to reining in this abuse.”

Richard So Executive Director, SF Hep B Free
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“When bad actors squeeze the public treasury for personal profit, public services take the hit — hurting public safety and emergency responders. It’s even worse when these profiteers funnel public dollars to finance slums that are unsafe and violate health codes. Prop. 34 will stop the worst abusers of this important public program and ensure that money meant for patients is spent on taking care of those who need help, not risking public safety.”

Brian K. Rice President, California Professional Firefighters

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