They lost in Congress last year, and now they’re turning to the federal courts!  (Sound familiar?)

Big Pharma and its allies are trying to stop Medicare’s new Rx drug price negotiation program before it even gets going. Four drug corporations and two of their business allies have filed lawsuits against Medicare: Astellas, Bristol Myers Squibb, Janssen, Merck, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures Association (the industry’s political lobby), and the US Chamber of Commerce.

What’s at stake in this tug of war? Nearly $162 billion in savings to Medicare and people on Medicare over the next decade that will finally lower drug prices.

Here’s what YOU and your organization can do to tell the CEOs of these lawsuit filers what you think:

• Individuals can sign this online petition that calls on them to “drop your lawsuits, and drop your prices!” The goal is 100K signatures by the beginning of next week – over 70K have already signed it!
• Organizations can sign on to this letter to these CEOs that says the same. The goal is 100 groups by next week, and over 55 have already done so.

Please spread the word to invite other people and groups to sign on to these two documents.

Patients in the US have been getting ripped off by drug corporations for years. These companies have charged us two to three times more than what people in all other industrialized countries pay for medicine. In the meantime, these firms are among THE most profitable in the world, and their CEOs make multi-millions every year.

Finally, don’t forget to join us for our “Save Medicare’s Lower Drug Prices!” rally taking place next Wed. Aug. 16 at 12 noon outside the NYC office of the notorious right-wing and anti-union law firm, Jones Day. It’s located at 250 Vesey St. (at the Hudson River) in lower Manhattan, just west of the World Trade Center complex. Jones Day is the law firm for Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck for their Medicare lawsuits. Full details and resources about the rally are here.