People share their stories: the human cost of high prescription drug prices

AARP

28 September 2021 - Why AARP keeps fighting to get your medication expenses under control.

In just two years Vincent Burns has spent about $40,000 on life-saving drugs to keep his cancer at bay, draining his savings.

Patricia Munn doesn't understand why she's paying so much for the two insulins she takes every day to stay alive. 

And William "Mike" McMichael has seen the cost of the blood thinner he needs eat up the small pension he gets after being an EMT and volunteer firefighter for more than three decades.

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