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>> Reporting from Deerfield.
I'm Elijah Pines for "Here&

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Now".
>> At the state Capitol

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this week, advocates urge
the legislature to take up

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and pass Cole's Act, a bill
that attempts to clamp down

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on industry practices that
they say hurt patients by

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increasing drug prices and
decreasing access to

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medications.
>> We need the legislature

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to get this done this
session. Patients can't

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wait any longer. These
copay accumulator policies

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are preventing patients
from getting access to

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needed medications, and
that has to stop. Insurance

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plans are rapidly adopting
these policies, and they

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are becoming increasingly
common. As a result, more

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and more patients are
reaching out to us with

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stories about going to the
pharmacy counter to pick up

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their medications and being
told they will have to pay