{"id":11908,"date":"2018-11-02T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:03:49","slug":"this-group-of-lawmakers-has-a-new-plan-to-bring-down-insulin-prices-and-it-takes-clear-aim-at-drug-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11908","title":{"rendered":"This group of lawmakers has a new plan to bring down insulin prices, and it takes clear aim at drug makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nicholas Florko for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">W<\/span><\/span>ASHINGTON \u2014 A bipartisan group of more than 290 lawmakers is throwing its support behind some of the drug industry\u2019s least favorite proposals for bringing down the cost of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/05\/15\/diabetes-insulin-novo-nordisk-north-carolina\/\">insulin<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/11\/01\/congress-plan-to-bring-down-insulin-prices\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nicholas Florko for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 A bipartisan group of more than 290 lawmakers is throwing its support behind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-healthcare-issues","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}