
Congress created the 340B Drug Pricing Program to extend federal resources and improve patient care. The Affordable Care Act added requirements for hospitals to provide free care and financial aid to poor patients, also known as charity care. What’s particularly striking is that charity care continues to decline year after year.

The 340B Drug Pricing Program has a dirty little secret: drug manufacturer rebates intended to help poor patients access healthcare services are being used to fund excessive compensation for hospital CEOs. This program was designed to help patients, not pad the pockets of healthcare executives.

The 340B Drug Pricing Program has a dirty little secret: drug manufacturer rebates intended to help poor patients access healthcare services are being used to fund excessive compensation for hospital CEOs. This program was designed to help patients, not pad the pockets of healthcare executives.

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to help poor patients access healthcare services. Yet, despite this program growing to $66 billion, primarily benefiting hospitals, medical debt continues to be a crippling financial burden for many Americans, with most of the debt being owed to these 340B-eligible hospitals.

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to help poor patients access healthcare services. Yet, despite this program growing to $66 billion, primarily benefiting hospitals, medical debt continues to be a crippling financial burden for many Americans, with most of the debt being owed to these 340B-eligible hospitals.

In 2008, we wondered if the financial bubble would burst as financial institutions deemed “too big to fail” teetered during a global economic crisis. Today, we watch the same thing happen to healthcare—particularly the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

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