POLITICO Mentions Public Citizen’s Role in Advocating for Drug Price Controls and Medicare Expansion in the American Families Plan
By Alice Miranda Ollstein and Susannah Luthi
“Progressive advocacy groups including Public Citizen, the Center for Popular Democracy and Social Security Works came away from a Friday afternoon virtual meeting with staff of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council without a firm commitment that drug price controls and a Medicare expansion would be included in the forthcoming package, which the administration calls the American Families Plan. The groups pitched the policies as ways Biden could fulfill his promise to address racial disparities in health care.”