{"id":22431,"date":"2024-02-08T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22431"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:29:45","slug":"3-charts-about-drug-prices-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22431","title":{"rendered":"3 Charts About Drug Prices in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Craig Palosky for The Kaiser Family Foundation published February 7, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prescription drug costs are a top concern for the American public. While retail prescription drugs represent less than 10% of total U.S. health spending and are not the primary driver of the nation\u2019s high health costs, Americans often pay more for the same prescription drugs than people in other countries spend. Ahead of Thursday\u2019s expected Senate HELP Committee testimony from the CEOs of three major pharmaceutical companies, here are three charts about drug prices in the United States.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/press-release\/3-charts-about-drug-prices-in-the-united-states\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/press-release\/3-charts-about-drug-prices-in-the-united-states\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" class=\"wp-image-7499\" style=\"width: 147px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:&nbsp;<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Craig Palosky for The Kaiser Family Foundation published February 7, 2024) Prescription drug costs are a top concern for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[646,385,65],"class_list":["post-22431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-drug-costs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431","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=22431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22432,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions\/22432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}