{"id":20059,"date":"2022-08-08T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20059"},"modified":"2022-08-08T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:04:30","slug":"congress-is-about-to-act-on-drug-price-reform-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20059","title":{"rendered":"Congress is about to act on drug price reform. Here&#8217;s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Selena Simmons-Duffin and Allison Aubrey for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans pay way more than people in other countries do for prescription drugs. This drives voters crazy, and although lawmakers have been vowing to do something about it for decades, they haven&#8217;t made much progress.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/08\/06\/1115939997\/drug-prices-faq\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/08\/06\/1115939997\/drug-prices-faq\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"72\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" 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>(By Selena Simmons-Duffin and Allison Aubrey for NPR) Americans pay way more than people in other countries do for prescription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059","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=20059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20060,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20059\/revisions\/20060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}