{"id":2129,"date":"2016-03-02T00:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T05:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2016-03-14T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:23:07","slug":"throw-away-drugs-a-multi-billion-dollar-drain-on-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"Throw-away Drugs&#8211;A Multi Billion Dollar Drain on Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article posted by\u00a0Denver Nicks on\u00a0time.com, the issue of pharmaceuticals packaging prescription drugs in a manner that &#8220;guarantees&#8221; that they will ultimately be thrown away is discussed in depth. <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/money\/4243027\/drug-packaging-waste\/\" 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 \r\n 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>In an article posted by\u00a0Denver Nicks on\u00a0time.com, the issue of pharmaceuticals packaging prescription drugs in a manner that &#8220;guarantees&#8221; that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}