🩺 How AARP is Fighting to Lower Drug Prices (AARP Article/advocacy)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

5 Ways AARP Is Fighting to Lower Drug Prices.

A historic effort lowered Medicare prescription prices and set an annual cap on drug expenses.

By Miriam Cross, AARP. Published December 18, 2025.

Linda Essenmacher pulled money from her savings in 2024 to help cover an expensive medication that treats intense back pain caused by an inflammatory disease. Even with Medicare, the drug costs the 80-year-old Dover, Delaware, resident more than $2,000 each month.

In 2025, there was no need to resort to savings: a new annual cap on out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare Part D beneficiaries had kicked in. By the end of January, Essenmacher had hit the $2,000 limit for 2025 and would pay nothing for her medication for the rest of the year.

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https://www.aarp.org/advocacy/aarp-fights-for-lower-drug-prices/