Pharmaceuticals

Ensuring access to medicines is a crucial component of improving access to health care, and pharmaceutical companies play a major role in getting necessary medications to those in need who are not able to otherwise afford them.

• Kaiser to Give Away 70 ofits Most Highly Prescribed Drugs to Those Who Lost Jobs
• AstraZeneca Partners with Primary Health Care to Help Iowa Uninsured
  AstraZeneca is providing free medication to eligible patients through Primary Health Care, a nonprofit community health center.

• Access to Medicine Index
  Highlights efforts by drug companies to help improve access to medicines and encourages them—and all other stakeholders—to do more.
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
  Represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies.
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance
  Is sponsored by America's pharmaceutical research companies joining forces with more than 1,300 leading national, state and local organizations and helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medicines they need through the program that is right for them.
• Together Rx Access Prescription Savings Program
  Created as a public service by a group of some of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, in order to provide savings on prescriptions to eligible residents of the US and Puerto Rico who have no prescription drug coverage.
• Pfizer
  Offers numerous programs to assist unemployed, uninsured, and underinsured individuals receive medication.
• Kaiser Family Foundation Videoed interviews
  with INSURED cancer patients about gaps in coverage.