The 340B Drug Pricing Program is an essential source of support for safety net healthcare providers, non-profit clinics, and hospitals. The 340B program allows them to stretch increasingly scarce resources and cover the costs of patient care. The program allows providers to purchase drugs at significantly reduced costs. The providers pass the savings on to their patients through reduced drug prices and use additional savings to expand access and improve healthcare. Safety net providers include people living with HIV, the poor, and people who have lost their health insurance. The cost of healthcare can easily push them further into poverty, disease, even death. The 340B program helps prevent this.