Large majorities of Americans from both major parties support steps to control prescription drug costs such as showing prices in ads, removing barriers to generics and letting patients get less expensive drugs from Canada, a new poll shows.
Expensive drugs are one of several factors in rising medical costs that strain government, employer and household budgets. In some health plans, drugwidely watched hearingAmericans deem prescription costs a big problem, even though most don’t have trouble getting the medicine they need. Most of those using prescription drugs said it’s easy or very easy to afford them. But one-fourth of adults said it is “difficult” to afford their medicines and 1 in 10 said it’s “very difficult.
Eight in 10 said prescription drug costs are unreasonable. Only 3 percent said they trust drug companies “a lot” to price products fairly. Another 22 percent said they trust them “somewhat,” adding up to a quarter of respondents who placed trust in pharma — down sharply from 41 percent a decade ago.But support for cost-control measures isn’t unconditional.
Six in 10 survey respondents also said profits from middlemen managing drug benefits are a major factor in high prices. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the lobbying group for brand-name drugmakers, has spent millions of dollars trying to shift the blame to pharmacy benefit managers, known as PBMs, which take a large cut of the revenue stream.
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