California Takes on Big Pharma with Prop 61

Kristen Sparrow • August 27, 2016

This post sums up the players and strategies behind both sides of Prop 61

Drug companies and their wealth have captured the national legislative and regulatory process and even some of the national patient advocacy groups (see below for more). How to crack the nut of deadly high drug prices and bring them down to an affordable level? Activists in California are making a very credible attempt at the state level with a November ballot initiative called the Drug Prices Relief Act, or Proposition 61.