In a recent story, The New York Times used the experiences of doctors and patients at Erie Family Health Centers to illustrate how the American Rescue Plan Act caused dramatic price increases of certain prescriptions . Due to complicated pricing structures and laws, provisions of ARPA designed to lower prescription costs had the unintended consequence of actually increasing the cost of prescriptions for some patients served by health clinics focused on low-income populations. As one Erie doctor stated, “‘We were in a good place. . . And then all the medicines had to change.'” The full article can be found at this link.