Prescription Drugs

• As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

  February 16, 2021: By Harris Meyer Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels. ...Read more >

• KHN: Seniors Face Crushing Drug Costs as Congress Stalls on Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets

  January 07, 2021: By Harris Meyer Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst — priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply — only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations. Clark, 57, a former insurance agent...Read more >

• Cost of Vaccine

  December 14, 2020:   The holidays are a time for cheer and goodwill toward your fellow human. Someone should send that message to Chuck Grassley. At a time when many should be celebrating, they’re jobless due to a pandemic of which Grassley has been infected....Read more >

• Coal in Grassley’s Stocking

  December 14, 2020: He’s making a list. He’s checking it twice. He’s gonna find out who’s naughty and nice. It is easy to tell which side of the list Chuck Grassley is on. The last four years he has aided and abetted a conman grifter who enabled a pandemic to...Read more >

• If ever there was a time to delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy, it is now

  October 01, 2020:   When Chuck Grassley & Joni Ernst refused to hold a hearing on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, I thought they were being racist and playing partisan politics.  They insisted that voters “needed a say” in an election year ...Read more >

• Iowa Republicans fail to uphold promises of Older Americans Act

  July 20, 2020:   President Lyndon Johnson signed the Older Americans Act into law on July 14, 1965. It responded to the need for community services, evidence-based health promotion, disease prevention programs, civic engagement, and elder justice for senior...Read more >

• Miller-Meeks touts Trump’s unproven anti-malarial drug

  July 20, 2020:   This week we celebrated the 55th anniversary of the Older Americans Act (OAA). The OAA funds many social service programs that keep older adults healthy and independent. Important pieces of this legislation include evidence...Read more >

• Iowa, National Republicans Failing Seniors Amid The Pandemic

  July 20, 2020:   On July 14, 1965, the Older Americans Act (OAA) was signed into law. It responded to the need for community services, evidence-based health promotion, disease prevention programs, civic engagement, and elder justice for senior citizens. Ame...Read more >

• Ernst is Owned by Big Pharma Donors

  July 13, 2020: It is so upsetting to me to know that Big Pharma giants like Gilead are donating to Joni Ernst's reelection bid. She has accepted thousands of dollars from Big Pharma donors this cycle, according to Kaiser Health News. While Ernst votes to give gi...Read more >

• The Pandemic is Ruining the Quality of Life for Iowa Seniors – Mike McCarthy, Iowa Alliance President

  July 06, 2020:   As the COVID-19 pandemic rages in America, older Americans face extraordinary risks. In fact, eighty percent of coronavirus deaths in America are people over the age of 65. But despite that fact, Donald Trump and his Republican allies have ne...Read more >