How is Abbott helping uninsured Americans to access medicines?
We believe that all people should have access to quality health care, and solutions need to be found to help the more than 46.6 million Americans who do not have health insurance (www.census.gov). Through our patient assistance programs in the United States, we provide free medicines to financially disadvantaged patients who do not have prescription drug coverage. Additionally, we participate in industry-wide initiatives to help low-income, uninsured or underinsured patients access free or discounted medicines. Abbott also supports equal access to innovative therapies for everyone through options that may make health insurance more affordable, such as tax credits that allow individuals to purchase health care policies, premium subsidies and employer purchasing pools. We supported the enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act, which added voluntary prescription drug coverage to the Medicare health insurance program for people in the United States who are over 65 years of age, or have
