One quick email to your state leaders can make a difference!
Please go to this link https://legis.wisconsin.gov/ and under the title Who Are My Legislators? type in your address to find your local State Representative and State Senator and copy their emails.
Next, create your own brief email to both and send! Here’s some help:
TO: (Insert Emails of Your State Sen/State Rep here)
SUBJECT: Please Support Legislation to Make All Copays Count
My name is [NAME] and I live at [ADDRESS] in your district. I am writing to respectfully ask for your support of legislation that will put patients first instead of greedy insurers and prevent an unfair insurer policy from hurting patients statewide and making them pay twice for their medications.
As you may be aware, insurers have created a copay accumulator policy that prevents non-profit and manufacturer drug copay assistance from counting toward patient deductibles and out of pocket maximums. Patients are forced to pay huge up-front costs to satisfy their deductible and get the medications they need. Meantime, the insurers redirect the patient assistance to their ledger, instead of the patient’s, allowing insurers to essentially “double dip.” Let’s be clear – forcing patients to pay twice, is not nice, nor is it fair and insurers need to be held accountable!
A bi-partisan group of more than 60 legislators now supports Wisconsin passing a law to stop this terrible policy from occurring and we need that to happen soon. These insurer practices disproportionately target the most financially vulnerable patients with serious chronic health conditions, create an affordability crisis and essentially undermine pre-existing condition protections.
[Include your personal story: As a patient with a chronic illness, caregiver of a loved one, family member, concerned citizen – this issue is important to me. What the insurers are doing to those who depend on this type of assistance is appalling and Wisconsin must stand up with a law to make all drug assistance copays count.]
There are literally tens of thousands of patients around our state who will be negatively impacted if insurers are allowed to impose their Copay Accumulator policy on patients who need medically necessary medications to survive. We need your help! Please support putting patients first and Making All Copays Count legislationa reality.
