{"id":12501,"date":"2019-01-25T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12501"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:12:53","slug":"drug-pricing-policies-find-new-momentum-as-a-2020-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12501","title":{"rendered":"Drug-Pricing Policies Find New Momentum As \u2018A 2020 Thing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The next presidential primary contests are more than a year away. But presumed candidates are already trying to stake a claim to one of health care\u2019s hot-button concerns: surging prescription drug prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a 2020 thing,\u201d said Dr. Peter Bach, who directs the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and tracks drug-pricing policy.<\/p>\n<p>Spurred on by midterm election results that showed health care to be a deciding issue, lawmakers \u2014 some of whom have already launched presidential run exploratory committees \u2014 are pushing a bevy of new proposals and approaches.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/drug-pricing-policies-find-new-momentum-as-a-2020-thing\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=69300724&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--AZkfT2j8uc6iOShrq_srKCxAwrJC7Ei6TDZW-JQ7xVw_XkddFVU9z_ETwm5UjKf52TlT5HgcazRsPsIPxml6wNmveJg&amp;_hsmi=69300724\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/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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