Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck are suing Medicare

to stop its new Rx drug price negotiation program

before it even gets started.

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Jones Day is their lawyer.

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Join fellow New Yorkers to demand that BMS & Merck:

“Drop Your Lawsuit, Drop Your Prices!”

Wed. Aug. 16 @ 12 noon

Outside NYC Office of Jones Day

250 Vesey Street (at Hudson River) in Lower Manhattan.

Outreach & promotion materials to share:

• Online event page
• PDF flyer
• Facebook event

Social media materials can be found here.

What else to do:

• Organizations are asked to sign-on to this letter jointly addressed to the CEOs of the entities that are suing Medicare (Astellas, Bristol Myers Squibb, Janssen, Merck, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Assoc., US Chamber of Commerce)
• Individuals can sign this online petition also addressed to these CEOs

Rally co-sponsors [list in formation] -- additional groups can sign-on here

• ACT UP New York
• Be A Hero
• Center for Independence of the Disabled New York
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Citizen Action of New York
• Council of Municipal Retirees Organizations
• Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee
• Health Care for America Now
• Health GAP
• Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
• Lower Drug Prices Now
• Make the Road New York
• Metro New York Health Care for All
• New Jersey Citizen Action
• New York Progressive Action Network
• New York Statewide Senior Action Council
• Northwest Bronx Indivisible
• Patients for Affordable Drugs
• People's Action
• Physicians for a National Health Program, New York Metro Chapter
• Professional Staff Congress CUNY
• Public Citizen
• Rise and Resist
• 1199SEIU/GNYHA Healthcare Education Project
• 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
• Social Security Works
• Universities Allied for Essential Medicines

Note: Co-sponsorship means that a group agrees to promote this rally through its networks, and will work to have a contingent participate. Organizational banners are welcome!

Rally endorsers (for public officials and community leaders only) [list in formation] -- endorsement form here

• Rep. Dan Goldman (NY-10)
• Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-12)