{"id":20001,"date":"2022-07-20T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20001"},"modified":"2022-07-20T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:15:54","slug":"why-are-americans-spending-more-on-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20001","title":{"rendered":"Why are Americans spending more on prescription drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why do Americans spend, on average, $1,300 per person per year on prescription drugs? Is it due to the median launch price of a new drug in the United States of $180,000 for a year\u2019s supply? Is the high price tag for prescription drugs in the United States because the government does not directly regulate medicine prices, unlike in other nations? Who pays for these drugs? For the answers to these questions, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-07-19\/why-prescription-drug-prices-in-the-us-are-so-high-quicktake\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-07-19\/why-prescription-drug-prices-in-the-us-are-so-high-quicktake\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"wp-image-10021\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg 2121w, 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: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do Americans spend, on average, $1,300 per person per year on prescription drugs? Is it due to the median<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001","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=20001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20003,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}