Center for American Progress

EVENT ADVISORY: Lowering Prescription Drug Costs To Advance Health Equity: A Conversation With HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
Press Advisory

EVENT ADVISORY: Lowering Prescription Drug Costs To Advance Health Equity: A Conversation With HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra

Washington, D.C. — The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 brought historic reforms to the Medicare program—including capping the cost of insulin, enabling the program to negotiate the prices for certain prescription drugs, and capping enrollees’ total out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for the first time. 

These reforms have the potential to close important affordability gaps, including for Medicare enrollees of color.   

Join the Center for American Progress on April 11, 2024, for a conversation between Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and CAP President and CEO Patrick Gaspard on how the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare prescription drug reforms will reduce health disparities by improving affordability and to learn more about how enrollees are already benefiting from these important provisions. 

WHO: 
Opening remarks: 
Andrea Ducas, Vice President of Health Policy, Center for American Progress 

In conversation: 
Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Patrick Gaspard, President and CEO, Center for American Progress

WHEN: 
Thursday, April 11, 2024 

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET

WHERE: 
In person: 
1333 H Street NW 

Washington, D.C. 20005 

To attend in person, please RSVP at this link

Online: 
To join our online audience, please RSVP at this link

For more information, please contact Sarah Nadeau at [email protected].  

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