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Prescription prices could push Washington state into the drug business
Responding to federal inaction on pharmaceutical costs, lawmakers appear poised to give the state broad authority to buy or make generic drugs.
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InvestigateWest / March 5, 2021
Madison Johnson, an insulin-dependent diabetic, started volunteering with Washington s #insulin4all chapter after she was furloughed from her job at YMCA of Greater Seattle last year. While she has returned to full-time work, activism surrounding the need to make medicines accessible to all who need it remains an important facet of her life. Photographed at Sammamish Landing Park on March 3, 2021. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
As surging pharmaceutical prices drain state coffers and empty Washingtonians’ pocketbooks, lawmakers may dramatically expand the state’s authority to buy, make and share lower-cost insulin and other generic drugs.