Uninsured and Universal Access to Health Insurance

Wyeth supports universal access to affordable health insurance, including meaningful coverage for prescription medicines with affordable out-of-pocket costs. To solve the problem of the uninsured, we believe that expanding and enhancing market-based health insurance, including coverage for medicines, is the best way to improve affordability and achieve the goal of universal access to health insurance and care. Health care reforms that only address drug costs or prices will not improve access to care or affect the underlying reasons for lack of insurance. Wyeth believes it is critical to develop partnerships and consensus around the key issues and challenges in order to find workable policy solutions to the problem of the uninsured that will both benefit patients and be supported by others in the health care system. Wyeth is committed to supporting patients who have difficulty affording their medications and has a long history of helping uninsured patients in need receive our medications at no cost through the Wyeth Pharmaceutical Assistance Foundation and other programs.

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