Whether in church, synagogue, mosque, or at the kitchen table, most of us learned at an early age that while money and material goods come and go, life and health are precious and irreplaceable. It seems that Indiana’s members of Congress, the voice of the people of one of the least healthy states in this union, need to be reminded of this simple lesson.

The lives of many of our friends and loved ones are in the hands of a few big profit-driven companies, and those who are supposed to protect us are letting us down. It’s high time our leaders start to act on the values they learned long ago and reign in the big drug companies who are price-gouging patients in order to inflate their profits.