{"id":16307,"date":"2020-06-23T11:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16307"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:19:32","slug":"most-people-think-covid-19-will-raise-drug-prices-and-health-insurance-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16307","title":{"rendered":"Most people think COVID-19 will raise drug prices and health insurance premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new survey, 90 percent of Americans are \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d worried that COVID-19 will cause high drug prices to go even higher. The survey was conducted by the Gallop Poll and West Health found consumers have a deep-seated suspicion of Big Pharma and expressed concerns that they will leverage the COVID-19 pandemic to raise drug prices. Although health insurance rates have gone down in some cases, the survey found majority of respondents feel that the pandemic will ultimately result in higher health insurance premiums. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/news\/will-covid-19-result-in-even-higher-drug-prices-062220.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8565\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>According to a new survey, 90 percent of Americans are \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d worried that COVID-19 will cause high drug<\/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-16307","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\/16307","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=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16308,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}