NYC Rally to “SAVE MEDICARE’S LOWER DRUG PRICES!”
Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck are both suing Medicare to block its new Rx drug price negotiation program before it even gets started!
The notorious Jones Day is their law firm.
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Join New Yorkers to demand that BMS and Merck:
“Drop Your Lawsuit, Drop Your Prices!”
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Wed. Aug. 16 @ 12 noon
Outside the NYC office of Jones Day
250 Vesey Street (at Hudson River) in Lower Manhattan
RSVPs and more info: https://bit.ly/Aug16NYCMedicareRally
Outreach & promotion materials to share:
What else to do:
- Organizations are asked to sign-on to this letter jointly addressed to the CEOs of the entities that are suing Medicare (Astellas, Bristol Myers Squibb, Janssen, Merck, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Assoc., US Chamber of Commerce.)
- Individuals can sign this online petition also addressed to these CEOs.
Sponsors [list in formation]:
- ACT UP New York
- Be a Hero
- Center for Independence of the Disabled New York
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Citizen Action of New York
- Council of Municipal Retirees Organizations
- Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee
- Health Care for America Now
- Health GAP
- Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
- Lower Drug Prices Now
- Make the Road New York
- Metro New York Health Care for All
- New Jersey Citizen Action
- New York Progressive Action Network
- New York Statewide Senior Action Council
- Northwest Bronx Indivisible
- Patients for Affordable Drugs
- People’s Action
- Public Citizen
- Physicians for a National Health Program, New York Metro Chapter
- Professional Staff Congress CUNY
- Rise and Resist
- 1199SEIU / GNYHA Healthcare Education Project
- 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
- Social Security Works
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Additional group sponsor sign-on form here.
Note: Co-sponsorship means that a group agrees to promote this rally through its networks, and will work to have a contingent participate. Organizational banners are welcome!
Rally endorsers (for public officials and community leaders only) [list in formation] Endorsement form here
- Rep. Dan Goldman (NY-10)
- Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-12)