NAM Bolsters Campaign Urging Congress to Stand for Manufacturing Innovation and Oppose Drug Price Controls
Nationwide Advertising Campaign Urges Lawmakers to Oppose H.R. 3
Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Manufacturers has launched a national television and digital advertising campaign urging lawmakers to stand up for manufacturers that make lifesaving medicines, including the COVID-19 vaccines that are now getting us back to work safely, by opposing H.R. 3 and its foreign-styled price setting on critical pharmaceuticals.
The campaign calls on members of Congress from both parties to oppose policies that would slow our private-sector research engine in its tracks and diminish America’s ability to rapidly develop lifesaving cures by leaving us less prepared to respond to future crises and more reliant on other nations.
“We learned the hard way during the pandemic that we cannot rely on others to protect our nation’s health. Congress must stand up for its innovators and manufacturers whose medicines and treatments keep us healthy. They should oppose H.R. 3 and its top-down government-led controls that would undermine our ability to respond to our health care needs and develop lifesaving cures. When COVID-19 attacked, manufacturers delivered the vaccines that are now putting Americans back to work safely, reopening our economy and letting us get back to the moments we miss. Now is not the time to weaken our ability to respond to the next crisis or abandon American values of free enterprise. We are calling on members of Congress to stand with manufacturers and oppose H.R. 3,” said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons.
This new television and digital advertising campaign is running in media markets across the nation and follows NAM efforts to oppose drug price controls that have included numerous television, radio and print advertisements featured in nationwide outlets. To view the ad, click here.
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The National Association of Manufacturers is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. Manufacturing employs more than 12.3 million men and women, contributes $2.35 trillion to the U.S. economy annually and has the largest economic multiplier of any major sector and accounts for 63% of private-sector research and development. The NAM is the powerful voice of the manufacturing community and the leading advocate for a policy agenda that helps manufacturers compete in the global economy and create jobs across the United States. For more information about the NAM or to follow us on Twitter and Facebook, please visit www.nam.org.