Stay up to date by following our Facebook Page: Iowa Lower Drug Prices Now Congress needs to take immediate action to ensure the pharaceutical corporations charged with developing treatments for coronavirus won’t be able to price gouge patients for life-saving medicines. Coronavirus treatments and vaccines being developed using taxpayer dollars MUST be provided at no cost … Read more
We need voices that can help elevate the imperative that Big Pharma face their moral responsibility to lower the costs of insulin and other prescription medicines that millions of people depend on. We need to tell Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley that they MUST pass comprehensive reforms that by-pass Big Pharma’s excuses for price-gouging … Read more
We need to let our Members of Congress and the President know that we want to move forward not backward when it comes to OUR healthcare! We need to let them know that millions of Americans, including Iowa small business owners, their employees, their families, as well as farmers and the self-employed could finally get … Read more
Are you a small business owner/ farmer/ entrepreneur/ self-employed? We want to hear from you! Please take a minute to fill out the survey below! The Main Street Alliance-Iowa (MSA-IA) has been working since 2008 to make sure that the small business voice is heard from real small business owners on policy that matters most. … Read more
You would think that after years of promising and posturing to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare and after two embarrassing failed attempts earlier this year, Republicans would have come up with a plan that works. You would be wrong. The TrumpCare Bill is nightmare. It harms the poor, children, women and families, persons with disabilities, immigrants, … Read more
What’s at Stake for Iowa With a new president and Congress, the health care gains made throughout the last six years face their greatest threat yet. We have been travelling around the state – hearing from everyday friends, neighbors, seniors, small business owners, doctors, advocates and others about what the ACA means to them. But that’s just the beginning. … Read more
Activism can be tax deductible! For over 35 years, ICAN has been fighting for OUR SHARED VISION of prosperity for working families and the middle-class. It’s OUR future – our nation’s future and our family’s future – that’s at stake – not millionaires and CEO campaign contributors. During the past year, we have been busy, … Read more
Halloween is over… Governor Branstad needs to put the brakes on his unilateral decision to privatize Iowa’s Medicaid program. His plan is to turn over the care of more than a half million Iowans—that’s one in five of us—to four managed care companies by January 1, 2016. With this change, we will see administrative costs … Read more
That’s why we are conducting an “empty plate” action to urge members of Congress to support food security programs for kids. So far we have over 100 plates… would you like to include yours?? Nearly 18 million households across the country are categorized as “food insecure.”1 Fortunately, programs like reduced price and free school breakfast … Read more
Healthcare for Millions of Families at Risk! Right now Congress is failing to prioritize children’s health and nutrition programs. Without action from our elected officials, these programs will run out before the end of this year. Members of Congress are not putting our children first and making these issues a priority. The Child Health Insurance … Read more