According to a new poll released Monday, 85% of voters believe lowering drug prices should be a priority for Congress. The poll, conducted by GS Strategy Group, shows that 85.5% of registered voters think that lowering the cost of prescription medication should be a “top priority” or an “important priority” for Congress.
Only 9.6% of respondents said lowering drug prices is not “too important of a priority” while 2.1% said prices should not be lowered.
The polls showed that the majority of registered voters, 75%, believe Congress and the president need to do more to lower the cost of drugs. Only 9.6% said they have done enough.
A bill that would help lower the cost of prescription drugs, the Creates Act, is working its way through the congress. The bill cracks down on drug companies delaying the introduction of cheaper, generic versions of their drugs by refusing to provide samples needed for research. It would allow companies to sue for those samples.
Asked whether congressional leadership is open to the bill, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a supporter of the bill said, “I would hope so. They better be, because the public’s getting pretty pissed about drug prices.”