Council Passes a Resolution Urging the State to Control Outrageous Prescription Drug Prices

We passed a resolution this past Tuesday in support of a prescription drug affordability initiative,
and the goals of the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative. We call upon the Maryland General Assembly to implement the following three commonsense ideas to improve our citizens' access to essential prescription drugs:

1. Allow pharmacists to provide information to consumers about lower cost drug options.

2. Require prescription drug corporations to provide notice of new, expensive drugs, or large price increases of older drugs, as well as public justification for those pricing decisions.

3. Make expensive drugs more affordable by creating a new Prescription Drug Cost Review Commission to establish payment rates for expensive drugs that create significant affordability problems for Marylanders, building upon Maryland's successful tradition of health care cost scrutiny.