San Antonio Exress-News: Fighting Drug Costs

Re: "Trump drug plan doesn't go far enough," Editorial, May 24.

Overpromising and underdelivering defines the Trump administration. As your editorial correctly notes, President Donald Trump's prescription "blueprint" stops far short of needed reforms.

While there's no wonder drug to cure prescription price gouging, more effective solutions exist — Medicare negotiating prescription drug prices like the VA does already, allowing importation of safe drugs, and more competition by ending patent abuse.

Lower prices abroad only demonstrate that we have no "deal-maker in chief" here to protect Americans. Nonsense to believe that even if we could force foreigners to pay more, we would pay less.

Trump's failure hurts people like Elaine in San Antonio, whose monthly $815 drug bill for saving her eyesight "makes it so difficult to finish my senior years with dignity."

With drug prices soaring at 10 times the inflation rate and aware that an unaffordable drug is 100 percent ineffective, our Affordable Prescription Drug Task Force will not give up.

We just need some new House members who care enough about Elaine to stand up to Big Pharma.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-San Antonio, 35th Congressional District