It's a good time to be an advocate for lower drug prices. A cancer patient with a $26,000 per month drug bill thinks he's right for the cause.
"It has become increasingly clear that patients are getting killed by high drug prices," Dave Mitchell said. "They are losing their homes. They are spending their kids' education money. They are depleting their 401ks."
On Wednesday Mitchell launched a new advocacy group, Patients For Affordable Drugs. He said he kicked in $75,000 of his own savings and won a $500,000 grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to set up a website and to begin lobbying for ways to bring down the prices that patients get charged for drugs.
