House Judiciary Committee ‘Hell-Bent’ on pushing language to empower Pharma to attack access to safe, affordable medicines via personal importation says Lead Organizer of RxRights Coalition

Lee Graczyk, Lead Organizer of the RxRights Coalition, a nation-wide group of advocates working on behalf of the right of American citizens to have access to safe, affordable medicines by utilizing personal importation of their prescription medicines has issued the following statement about the House Judiciary Committee markup of the  Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would allow the pharmaceutical industry (Pharma) to engage in actions that would deny millions of Americans access to vital medicines because they could not otherwise afford them due to prescription drug costs in America being the highest in the world.  TodaysSeniorsNetwork.com is a member of the RxRights Coalition.

The statement follows:

It appears that Congress is hell-bent on fast tracking the legislation we've been warning you about (SOPA and PROTECT IP). If these proposals prevail, "we the people" lose and Big Pharma wins--big time.

The House Judiciary Committee will be marking up (amending) SOPA on Thursday, December 15 at 10:00 a.m.

The health of hundreds of thousands of Americans is riding on this bill. You need to act now. Use our easy online system to send a letter to your representatives today urging them to stop SOPA.
 

SOPA will literally kill online drug importation. It will guarantee that the drug industry can continue to charge exorbitant prices and rake in obscene profits. Meanwhile, an increasing number of Americans will suffer or even die because they can't afford their needed medications--and this is not an overstatement.

We urge you to take action today before it's too late!
 

Lee Graczyk, 

RxRights Lead Organizer

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