{"id":17590,"date":"2021-02-01T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17590"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:21:31","slug":"four-approaches-the-new-congress-should-take-to-rein-in-prescription-drug-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17590","title":{"rendered":"Four approaches the new Congress should take to rein in prescription drug costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Congress should with a renewed legislative effort rein in prescription drug costs by targeting antitrust abuses is the logical first step according to Michael A. Carrier. In Michael A. Carrier\u2019s article appearing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\">www.healthaffairs.org<\/a>, he suggests that the 117<sup>th<\/sup> Congress should focus on preventing four types of anticompetitive conduct which has bipartisan support, and most were included in bills that advanced during the last session. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/do\/10.1377\/hblog20210126.820337\/full\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.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>The new Congress should with a renewed legislative effort rein in prescription drug costs by targeting antitrust abuses is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590","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=17590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17593,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions\/17593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}