{"id":13025,"date":"2019-04-11T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:13:20","slug":"the-blame-game-everyone-and-no-one-is-raising-insulin-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13025","title":{"rendered":"The Blame Game: Everyone And No One Is Raising Insulin Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A casual observer of Wednesday\u2019s House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing might think insulin prices just go up by themselves.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the key industry executives filed opening statements to the congressional panel outlining patient-assistance programs, coupons and discounts \u2014 a range of price reductions that might make one think this life-or-death diabetes medication is easily affordable to the patients who need it.\u00a0 Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/the-blame-game-everyone-and-no-one-is-raising-insulin-prices\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=71658543&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8FIWsx0shRwgoy36Sw6n_Zer2OZN-GkoVKjCVFzIfHe1V5x2vbRjjmmqnqZ1SjDmUt2toamoEOmszZ1YwZ43f_AYwq0g&amp;_hsmi=71658543\"> article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News) A casual observer of Wednesday\u2019s House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing might think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025","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=13025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13026,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions\/13026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}