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Vaccine Policy Toolkit

This toolkit is intended to provide state policy options related to vaccines, including background information and key considerations for state legislators.

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State Legislatures Inject Momentum into COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

State policymakers have been identifying policies that may remove barriers and streamline access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Overview

Almost 50 percent of Americans take prescription drugs regularly, improving their health or even saving lives. State and federal legislative actions have led to major policy shifts, affecting drug costs, use of brands or generics and patient access and safety. Read reports on Medicaid use of preferred drug lists, new rebates from manufacturers, public and private patient assistance programs, medication adherence and patient education, “sunshine” laws, tighter regulation of safety violations at compounding pharmacies, combating illegal misuse of prescription products and future trends that affect a new generation of biological medications. Some results are dramatic: total U.S. drug spending was rising at a rate of 10 percent annually a decade ago, but recently the annual increase had slowed to less than 2 percent, then surged back 8.5 percent in 2015.