{"id":1928,"date":"2016-02-10T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:36:36","slug":"drug-cost-negotiations-addressed-in-obama-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Drug Cost Negotiations Addressed in Obama Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s recently proposed budget has downsides and upsides for seniors, but one of the upsides has garnered support from the\u00a0National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. Specifically, in an article posted on\u00a0www.ncpssm.org,\u00a0NCPSSM President\/CEO Max Richtman discusses the positive impact of removing the ban preventing Medicare from\u00a0\u00a0negotiating drug prices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpssm.org\/EntitledtoKnow\/entryid\/2184\/president-proposes-allowing-medicare-to-negotiate-for-lower-rx-drug-prices\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s recently proposed budget has downsides and upsides for seniors, but one of the upsides has garnered support from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}