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Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2025 – Save Our States is calling on Ohio legislators to reject efforts to expand the broken federal 340B drug pricing program through House Bill 276, warning that the proposal would cement Obama-era changes that removed safeguards and turned 340B into a windfall for big hospital systems.

Yesterday, the Ohio House Insurance Committee held a hearing on HB 276, with sponsors arguing that the bill will support rural healthcare. Trent England, Executive Director of Save Our States, testified before the committee, warning that the legislation will do the opposite by funneling more taxpayer-backed profits to large hospital networks that already use 340B to subsidize controversial medical practices.

The 340B program was originally intended to help low-income patients by allowing hospitals and clinics to buy drugs at steep discounts. But under loosened federal rules, large hospital systems have leveraged it for massive profits, often without passing the savings on to patients.

“It’s good to see legislators talking about rural healthcare, but manipulating the federal 340B programs is the wrong prescription—it could make things worse,” said England. “The Obama Administration stripped safeguards from 340B, and the Ohio Legislature shouldn’t codify those changes. The fact is that 340B generates windfall profits for big hospitals and subsidizes woke medicine including at clinics in Ohio.”

Save Our States was established in 2009 to defend the rights of hardworking Americans and make the case for constitutional federalism.

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