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# Public Citizen Praises Drug Price Bill
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/public-citizen-praises-drug-price-bill/
- Published: 2017-06-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T22:29:39.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5138945

Public Citizen says that the Stop Price Gouging Act (number and text not yet available) introduced by Sens. **Sherrod Brown** (D-OH) and **Kirsten Gillibrand** (D-NY) would limit annual prescription drug price spikes or cumulative price hikes over five years. “This bill is the cure for the epidemic of pharmaceutical price spikes that is leading to the rationing of treatment from the EpiPen to the opioid antidote Evzio,” the advocacy group says in a [statement](https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/brown-gillibrand-bill-would-stop-pharma-price-gouging?ref=fdaweb.com).

“At a time when Americans of all political stripes are demanding that our elected officials take action to lower medicine prices,” says Public Citizen Access to Medicines advocate **Steven Knievel**, “the Stop Price Gouging Act is a superior alternative to the price-increasing measures under consideration now for a Trump administration executive order. Imposing rules that make other countries pay more would do nothing to limit pharma greed at home.”

The statement references a Public Citizen survey that found that only 14% of the world’s top 29 pharmaceutical corporations were willing to limit annual price increases to less than 10%. It says that already this year, Pfizer raised prices on more than 90 prescription drugs by more than 20% on average. Nearly 28 million Americans have personally experienced a price hike in the past year, it says.

“Without clear boundaries on pharma profiteering, pharmaceutical corporations will continue to charge consumers and taxpayers extraordinarily high prices because they can, and families across the country will continue to be forced into choices between health and other basic necessities of life, from buying groceries to paying the mortgage or rent,” Knievel concludes. “Instead of working overtime to take away healthcare from millions of people from America’s most vulnerable populations, Congress should pass the Stop Price Gouging Act without delay.”