PLEASE HELP MAKE COLE’S FATHER’S WISH COME TRUE IN JANUARY AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF EVERYONE!
URGE YOUR LEGISLATORS TO MAKE A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION TO PASS LEGISLATION NOW TO STOP PREDATORY PBM PRACTICES IN WISCONSIN!
One quick email to your state leaders can make a difference!
Please go to this link https://legis.wisconsin.gov/ and under the title Who Are My Legislators? Type in your address to find your local State Senator and State Assembly Representative andthen use each of their email addresses to create two separate emails you will send to them from you. We’ve provided some content below for you to copy and paste into your email with space to customize with your personal story.
EMAIL FOR SENATORS:
TO: [Insert Email of Your State Senators here]
SUBJECT: Please PASS SB203 in January to Make All Copays Count
My name is [NAME] and I live at [ADDRESS] in your district. I am writing to respectfully ask for your vote of support of Senate Bill 203 - Cole’s Act when it comes to the Senate floor for consideration. SB203 will put patients first instead of greedy insurers and prevent an unfair insurer policy from hurting patients statewide and making them pay twice for their medications.
Insurers and their PBMs have created a copay accumulator policy that prevents non-profit and manufacturer drug copay assistance from counting toward patient deductibles and out of pocket maximums. That forces patients to pay huge up-front costs to satisfy their deductible to get the medications they need. Meantime, the insurers redirect the patient assistance to their ledger, instead of a patient’s, allowing insurer PBMs to essentially “double dip.” Let’s be clear – forcing patients to pay twice, is not nice, nor is it fair and PBMs need to be held accountable!
Supporters like me of this legislation need you to vote as soon as possible to pass Cole’s Act, legislation to end PBM copay accumulator programs that inflate patient prescription costs. A large bi-partisan group of 20 state senators and 31 state representatives already support these bills, and they are poised for action now to avoid delaying action for another year making patients suffer and only benefiting insurers’ bottom lines, per the group. A total of 25 states have already passed similar efforts holding PBMs accountable and making all copays count nationwide.
The Senate will soon vote on this bill and we need your support! These insurer practices disproportionately target the most financially vulnerable patients with serious chronic health conditions, create an affordability crisis and essentially undermine pre-existing condition protections.
[Include your personal story: As a patient with a chronic illness, caregiver of a loved one, family member, concerned citizen – this issue is important to me. What the insurers are doing to those who depend on this type of assistance is appalling and Wisconsin must stand up with a law to make all drug assistance copays count.]
There are literally tens of thousands of patients around our state who will be negatively impacted if insurers are allowed to impose their Copay Accumulator and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) policies on patients who need medically necessary medications to survive. PBMs are insurer middlemen who are making patients pay twice for medications which leaves Wisconsin’s most vulnerable unable to pay for lifesaving medications! It’s wrong and it needs to be stopped!
Please support putting patients first and Making All Copays Count by supporting and voting for SB203!
TO: [Insert Email of Your State Assembly representative here]
SUBJECT: Please PASS AB173 Now in January to Make All Copays Count
My name is [NAME] and I live at [ADDRESS] in your district. I am writing to respectfully ask for your vote of support for a hearing on Assembly Bill 173 - Cole’s Act and to pass it when it comes to the floor for consideration. AB173 will put patients first instead of greedy insurers and prevent an unfair insurer policy from hurting patients statewide and making them pay twice for their medications.
Insurers and their PBMs have created a copay accumulator policy that prevents non-profit and manufacturer drug copay assistance from counting toward patient deductibles and out of pocket maximums. That forces patients to pay huge up-front costs to satisfy their deductible to get the medications they need. Meantime, the insurers redirect the patient assistance to their ledger, instead of a patient’s, allowing insurer PBMs to essentially “double dip.” Let’s be clear – forcing patients to pay twice, is not nice, nor is it fair and PBMs need to be held accountable!
I am asking that you move to hold a hearing and then pass Cole’s Act legislation as soon as possible to end PBM copay accumulator programs that inflate patient prescription costs. A large bi-partisan group of 20 state senators and 31 state representatives already support these bills, and they are poised for action now to avoid delaying action for another year making patients suffer and only benefiting insurers’ bottom lines, per the group. A total of 25 states have already passed similar efforts holding PBMs accountable and making all copays count nationwide.
We need a hearing and passage of this bill in the Assembly and your support! These insurer practices disproportionately target the most financially vulnerable patients with serious chronic health conditions, create an affordability crisis and essentially undermine pre-existing condition protections.
[Include your personal story: As a patient with a chronic illness, caregiver of a loved one, family member, concerned citizen – this issue is important to me. What the insurers are doing to those who depend on this type of assistance is appalling and Wisconsin must stand up with a law to make all drug assistance copays count.]
There are literally tens of thousands of patients around our state who will be negatively impacted if insurers are allowed to impose their Copay Accumulator and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) policies on patients who need medically necessary medications to survive. PBMs are insurer middlemen who are making patients pay twice for medications which leaves Wisconsin’s most vulnerable unable to pay for lifesaving medications! It’s wrong and it needs to be stopped!
Please support putting patients first and Making All Copays Count by supporting and voting for AB173/Cole’s Act as soon as possible in January!
