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Prescription Drug Affordability Boards have been created in states across the country with a pretty compelling promise to make prescription drugs more affordable for patients. But there’s an important question hiding inside the word affordability. Affordable for whom? Tiffany Westrich-Robertson and her team decided to ask patients themselves. Their research found that affordability is shaped by far more than the price of a drug, including insurance coverage, deductibles, copay assistance and whether an insurer forces someone to switch treatments. And that creates a problem when policies promoted with stories about patients struggling to afford their medications aren’t necessarily designed to solve the problems those patients described. As Tiffany put it, “They’re citing patient hardship stories with solutions that are not going to fix those hardship stories. If they said it’s about us, then it better be about us.” Tiffany joins Terry Wilcox on the newest episode of State of the Patient to unpack what patients said when someone finally asked them what prescription drug affordability actually means.  Listen here: hubs.ly/Q04vpbLY0