“The cost of health care is just too damn high, and California is fighting back,” Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement.
“Consumers would directly benefit if California contracted on its own to manufacture much-needed generic medications like insulin — a drug that has been around for a century yet the price has gone up over tenfold in the last few decades,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California.
Newsom, now in his second year in office, has sought to overhaul the state's prescription drug market. Last year, in one of his first acts in office, Newsom ordered the state to take over the Medicaid program's prescription drug benefits, a program that affects 13 million people.
Yes!!!!!!
jairbolsonaro olha essa ideia.
So let me get this right. The state that has lost all control over their homeless problem and is overwhelmed by its mental health and opioid crisis is going to go into the prescription production business RIGHT. This should end well.
NoFascistLies He was elected by promising us single payer universal healthcare. And this is his solution? We need to call, text, & email his office demanding the solution he promised us. SB562 MedicareForAll NoMiddleGround
Bien por ésta noticia, ha de ser la mejor de la semana en cuanto a salud y vida.
If Newsom has anything to with he'll f*ck it up & he would probably give prescriptions to illegal aliens for free & raise the price to Americans for a profit
This is by far the dumbest thing I’ve read today since returning to twitter in leiu of an internet outage by spectrum. We don’t want competition in the generic market. We want quality and affordability (if not free). Not another hidden revenue stream that we have no control of.
Good💜💜💜👏👏👏
Yet again, California has to drag the rest of America towards common sense.
Yay Gov., you’re the bravest of them all.
OregonGovBrown GavinNewsom How about a co-opt? OR/CA team together?
Welcome to the rest of the world
Eden_Sarbanes Republicans in Congress are elected by Corporate America to protect Pharmaceutical industry profits. Republicans do not work in the American People best Interests and need to be voted out if office
Generic drugs are cheaper but what percentage is the drug what percentage are fillers Theirs a reason they are so cheap
This has potential.
Yeah cause when CA government gets involved good things happen. 😂
I just said this week it's amazing how much prescription medication costs and how I can't understand how people with limited means can afford to buy what in some cases keeps them alive. Something needs to be done to bring down prescription drug costs.
Who cares! I live in this DUMP California! No one gives 2 💩 💩 About GAVIN NEWSOM! OR HIS BS! LIKE U!
Good
Good for CA. The free market is not free when companies manufacturing brandname drugs also control the manufacturing of generic drugs AND keep the costs of generics artificially high.
Everything gets cheaper when the government gets involved, right?
It’s not the generics that are the problem. It’s the new drugs that pharma keeps patents on for years maintaining high costs to consumers. That’s what needs to stop.
He wants to get his own narcotics cheaper.
Now they are controlling the means of production. Well done Comrade.
AWESOME Kudos to California
california is the last entity i trust with my health needs
Bien por la medida, además los abuelos (as) necesitan sus medicinas.
La idea es que la fórmula de la medicina no varíe, además la salud no es un 'negocio' sino un derecho adquirido por todos los estadounidenses.
Innovative thinking...why not?
California’s government has gone bankrupt before, but you trust them to manufacture your meds and sell them to you!!
They still don't do that? F. they already do this in Brazil. 🙈🙈🙉🙉🙊🙊
AWESOME Kudos to California
Drug dealing run by state government employees - what could possibly go wrong?
Important for patients chronic !!!
Sad and pathetic that it's come to this. Big pharma are a price fixing drug cartel. Great idea though hope it works.
Excelente idea
They will only put a 20% tax on it too. Plus sales tax, of course.
Awesome!
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GovernorTomWolf For Pennsylvanians?
That's great and already exists ... after the patents are up that allow generics to make and sell cheaper anyway.
Brilliant!
Good thinking out-of-the-box. IF OPERATED PROPERLY this could save a huge amount for Medicaid/Medicare programs AND patients. Keep politics out of the process and run it like a serious cost effective business and it will be a pilot program for other states to emulate. Good deal!
California drug company meet California Speed Train.....
CA Medi-Cal recipients already get low to no cost drugs.