{"id":19129,"date":"2021-11-16T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19129"},"modified":"2021-11-16T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:58:46","slug":"as-big-pharma-and-hospitals-battle-over-drug-discounts-patients-miss-out-on-millions-in-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19129","title":{"rendered":"As Big Pharma and Hospitals Battle Over Drug Discounts, Patients Miss Out on Millions in Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble and Emily Featherston, Investigate TV for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>In early July, as the covid-19 pandemic slammed rural America, the president of a small Kansas hospital sat down on a Friday afternoon and wrote the president of the United States to plead for help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not intend to add to your burden,\u201d said Brian Williams, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and Desert Storm combat veteran. He said his hospital, Labette Health, was \u201clike a war zone,\u201d inundated with unvaccinated patients. A department head had threatened to resign, saying he could not \u201cwatch one more body be carried out.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/340b-big-pharma-hospitals-battle-over-drug-discounts-patients-miss-out-on-millions-in-benefits\/\">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><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>(By Sarah Jane Tribble and Emily Featherston, Investigate TV for Kaiser Health News) In early July, as the covid-19 pandemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,53,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-hhs","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129","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=19129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19130,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19129\/revisions\/19130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}