{"id":20232,"date":"2022-09-15T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20232"},"modified":"2022-09-15T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:06:12","slug":"congress-needs-to-preserve-seniors-access-to-pharmacist-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20232","title":{"rendered":"Congress needs to preserve seniors\u2019 access to pharmacist care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By llisa BG Bernstein and Paul W Abramowitz for STAT News on Sept 15, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 demonstrated how quickly the United States can mobilize to produce and distribute new tests, vaccines, and treatments for a previously unknown virus. The pandemic also highlighted significant inequalities and gaps in its health care system, with many rural and underserved urban areas lacking sufficient access to care. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/15\/congress-needs-to-preserve-seniors-access-to-pharmacist-care\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/15\/congress-needs-to-preserve-seniors-access-to-pharmacist-care\/\">here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-13869\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/dreamstime_m_59080374health-care-reformID-59080374-\u00a9-Kritchanut-Dreamstime.com_-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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 llisa BG Bernstein and Paul W Abramowitz for STAT News on Sept 15, 2022 Covid-19 demonstrated how quickly the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,52],"tags":[105,75,61],"class_list":["post-20232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","category-pandemic","tag-congress","tag-covid-19","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20233,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions\/20233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}