America 250: New TAPP Cartoon Celebrates Constitution’s Intellectual Property Protections

As America approaches its 250th birthday, we are reflecting not only on our history, but on the ideas and institutions that made the United States the most innovative and economically dynamic nation in the world. For two and a half centuries, America’s strength has rested on a simple principle: When people are free to create, compete, and trade, prosperity follows. That principle matters just as much today, and we have created an editorial cartoon to celebrate…

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Ainsley Shea
New TAPP Cartoon: PBMs Benefit Insurance Companies on the Backs of Patients, Employers, Unions, and Taxpayers

For years, Americans have been told that high prescription drug prices are simply the unavoidable cost of innovation. But a growing body of evidence suggests something else is driving costs higher: a deeply opaque system dominated by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), insurance companies, and pharmacy chains that increasingly operate under the same corporate umbrella. The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created a new cartoon to illustrate the burden that the vertically integrated system has placed on patients, employers, unions, and taxpayers…

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Ainsley Shea
New TAPP Cartoon: 340B Is a Big “Oops” That Needs Fixing

The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created a new editorial cartoon to illustrate a big “oops” by Congress: The 340B drug pricing program. Congress created the 340B program in 1992 with a genuinely noble purpose: help hospitals and clinics serving low-income Americans stretch limited resources and provide more care to vulnerable patients…

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Ainsley Shea
New TAPP Cartoon: 340B Is Unsustainable, Needs Reform

The 340B drug pricing program was created with a simple and worthy goal: help hospitals and clinics serving low-income and uninsured patients purchase prescription drugs at steep discounts so they could stretch limited resources and provide more care. The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created an editorial cartoon to illustrate the issue…

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Ainsley Shea
TAPP Encourages Congress to Support 340B Rebate Model

The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today wrote to members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee; House Ways & Means Committee; and House Energy & Commerce Committee to encourage their support of the 340B rebate model under consideration by the Health Resources and Services Administration…

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Ainsley Shea
TAPP Responds to Request for Comments from Employee Benefits Security Administration on Improving Transparency into PBM Fee Disclosure

The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today responded to a request for comments from the Employee Benefits Security Administration on Improving Transparency into Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fee Disclosure pursuant to section 12 of President Trump's Executive Order 14273, Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First…

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Ainsley Shea
TAPP Urges Senate HELP Committee to Reform 340B Program Incentives

The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today wrote to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions (HELP), in advance of the committee’s upcoming hearing on policy pathways to make medicine more affordable, to urge members to reform incentives, improve accountability, and ensure that the 340B program fulfills its intended mission of supporting vulnerable patients while controlling overall healthcare costs…

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Ainsley Shea
TAPP Offers Editorial Cartoons on Drug Pricing

The Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity has created several editorial cartoons for newspapers, social media influencers, and bloggers to use when discussing drug pricing policies, specifically to educate about the perils of importing socialist pricing policies…

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Ainsley Shea