CHAIN engaged consumers in multiple states on holding hospitals and insurers accountable for waste and abuse in our health care system.  Our key initiatives included:

Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Board – The Colorado PDAB continues its 4-year record of wasting taxpayer dollars, ignoring patient concerns and providing ZERO in prescription savings to consumers.  CHAIN joins with other business, patient, consumer and industry organizations in opposing the current path of the PDAB and pushing for an entirely new direction that focuses on saving PATIENTS money, not insurers.

Colorado 2025 Legislative Session – Helped lead the fight to put patients first in the massive but little-known federal prescription drug discount program.  Hospitals siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in 340B discounts that should go to lowering the cost of drugs.  Instead, the money flows into a black hole, with no accountability or transparency.  The 340B reform initiative fell short in 2025, but we are far from finished.

Connecticut 2025 Legislative Session – CHAIN launched a first-of-its kind digital communications campaign to organize everyday consumers in the fight for fairer healthcare.  Holding drug middlemen accountable and lowering out of pocket costs were key objectives.  Over 500 Connecticut consumers signed up to help pass legislation that ultimately was tabled by the state assembly.   We will reengage in 2026 and work to make our on-line coalition even stronger.