Prescription Drugs

• KFF Health News: Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Steer Americans to the Costly Choice

  September 21, 2023: Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira — about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, known as biosimilars, ...Read more >

• Retirees Reach Out

  November 05, 2021: In early November, we received great news that the Build Back Better legislation in Congress would include lowering drug prices. Since negotiations first began, our issues have been pulled in by progressives and pushed out by reactionaries several ti...Read more >

• All Must be Vaccinated

  June 07, 2021: Texas retirees are not taking our eyes off the critical struggle for voter rights, but we continue to champion other senior issues. On June 7, we joined a coalition for a rally at the German Embassy in Dallas to "Free the Vaccine!" [caption id="at...Read more >

• Hearing Exposes Greed of Drug Corporation AbbVie

  May 24, 2021: According to a study released on May 18 by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, the pharmaceutical corporation AbbVie has raised prices 470% in the United States for its widely used drugs Humira and Imbruvica over the past two decades. The ...Read more >

• KHN: As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

  February 16, 2021: Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels. These bills, sponsor...Read more >

• KHN: Seniors Face Crushing Drug Costs as Congress Stalls on Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets

  January 07, 2021: Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst — priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply — only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations. Clark, 57, a former insurance agent who lives in Bixby,...Read more >

• Retirees Congratulate Longtime Friend

  December 17, 2019: The Austin TARA chapter meets this week. If you live in this area, you will receive a separate email about the meeting,   TARA MEMBERS CONGRATULATE JOE ARABIE TARA activists, including President Tony Padilla and Executive Board member Elaine ...Read more >

• Lower Prescription Drug Prices Now!

  October 14, 2019: The Fort Worth TARA Chapter meets on Wednesday. If you live in this area, you will receive a separate email about the meeting. TARA MEMBERS SAY LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES NOW! TARA members in Houston, Austin and Dallas took part in a Natio...Read more >

• Day of Action Is August 20

  August 19, 2019: The Fort Worth TARA Chapter meets this week. If you live in this area, you will receive a separate email about the meeting. Please note below the National Day of Action To Put People Over Pharma Profits on Tuesday, August 20. Please click the li...Read more >

• Fight Drug Prices

  June 25, 2019: TARA MEMBERS SAY NO TO HIGH DRUG PRICES! Americans pay the highest prescription prices in the world. As part of an ARA Action Day, detailed below, the TARA Austin chapter recently called their members of Congress during a meeting to demand that they...Read more >