{"id":11560,"date":"2018-09-21T08:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2018-09-21T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:31:57","slug":"as-states-try-to-rein-in-drug-spending-feds-slap-down-one-bold-medicaid-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11560","title":{"rendered":"As States Try To Rein In Drug Spending, Feds Slap Down One Bold Medicaid Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">States serve as \u201claboratories of democracy,\u201d as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said. And states are also labs for health policy, launching all kinds of experiments lately to temper spending on pharmaceuticals. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/as-states-try-to-rein-in-drug-spending-feds-slap-down-one-bold-medicaid-move\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66101592&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--Qq7ReFbRiiAoCfFQw9NXEjTkjVK5QpI0BG0FMp8Rx-cOUc32bzUKwkj44smwqg6S_tgLVpaW_BcxNdPNNxBBpZuTXuA&amp;_hsmi=66101592\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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