{"id":12573,"date":"2019-02-05T08:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2019-02-05T08:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:14:01","slug":"watch-what-is-a-biosimilar-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12573","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: What is a biosimilar, exactly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Damian Garde for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">T<\/span><\/span>hey\u2019re meant to save money for the health care system, carve into pharma\u2019s profits, and finally rid your television of some annoying commercials. But what\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0biosimilars, and where\u2019s the revolution they were promised to bring?\u00a0 Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/02\/05\/biosimilars-biologics-explainer-video\/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=b571ade07e-Readout_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-b571ade07e-149624405\">watch video&#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<p>&nbsp;<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Damian Garde for STAT) They\u2019re meant to save money for the health care system, carve into pharma\u2019s profits, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573","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=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12574,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}