15 (PBM) to reduce the price of drugs in the outpatient prescription drug supply chain. The FTC responded in June by announcing its plans to investigate these anticompetitive business practices of the top six PBMs. • In April, Colorado AMAC members sent the state legislature over 930 messages telling it to support H.B. 1285, a measure that would disallow a hospital to pursue medical debt from patients if it was not first in compliance with federal hospital price transparency laws. Thanks in part to AMAC’s support, the bill passed the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Jared Polis. • In April, South Carolina members sent the state legislature over 400 messages and helped to pass S. 133, the state’s application to call for an Article V convention to propose a balanced budget amendment. Unfortunately, due to a procedural error, this initiative will have to be taken up again in the next legislative session.
• In April, AMAC members were able to voice their opposition to The Walt Disney Company’s “woke” policies by sending 145,119 emails, making 3,549 telephone calls, among numerous other advocate actions, to Disney executives and board members. Disney fired its head of corporate affairs in late April two weeks after this campaign launched. • In April, AMAC members contacted the US Senate with 60 messages requesting their co-sponsorship of the “Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act”. • In May, Indiana AMAC members contacted their state legislature with over 1,400 messages telling it to override Governor Eric Holcomb’s veto of HEA 1041. This legislation would prevent biological boys from participating in girls’ sports and works to keep them out of girls’ locker rooms and restrooms in public schools. Pressure from AMAC members resulted in the legislature successfully overriding the veto. • In May, June, and early July nearly 80 AMAC members in New Hampshire responded to calls-to-action to register to become election inspectors for the forthcoming primary election. • In June, AMAC members sent over 10,000 messages to the US Senate in support of S. 4293, the “Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act.” Thanks to this advocacy, the Senate’s Science, Commerce, and Transportation Committee passed the bill out of their committee by a 19-9 vote and onto the Majority Leader for consideration for a floor vote. This campaign was later renewed and generated over 13,400 additional messages to get the bill included in a year-end spending package. Unfortunately, this bill was left out of the year-end package. • In July, two campaigns concerning a reconciliation package’s effect on Medicare and the opposition to a tax expansion directed towards small business income were launched on alternative social media platforms. Both campaigns generated a total of 1,232 messages with the income tax opposition effort being successful in keeping this provision out of the final version of the “Inflation Reduction Act”. • In July, a staggered campaign was launched resulting in AMAC members making nearly 20,000 contacts with the US Congress telling it to repeal the safe harbor that enables the anticompetitive business practices by group purchasing organizations (GPO). These practices drive up the cost of hospital supplies, including medications used for hospital inpatients. The campaign also urged Congress to audit these business practices and this effort’s follow-up will continue into the newly configured 118th Congress in 2023. • In September, over 17,000 comments were left by AMAC members on a Department of Interior website telling it to permit more oil and gas exploration and development within American boundaries. • In December, AMAC members in Texas left over 370 comments on the state’s Health and Human Services website in support for a rule that is necessary to implement a previously passed hospital price transparency law.
AMAC Action FL-04 Meet & Greet with (L-R) State Advocacy Rep Nick Aramino, Delegate Lynn Straughan, FL-04 Congressman John Rutherford, Delegate Ezra Magid, and AMAC Action Operations VP Jennifer Bengtson
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