{"id":23144,"date":"2024-07-31T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23144"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:10:09","slug":"medicare-negotiations-for-lower-drug-prices-near-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23144","title":{"rendered":"Medicare negotiations for lower drug prices near the finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the first things President Biden touted in his announcement that he was bowing out of the 2024 presidential contest was his work on prescription drug prices. And the biggest achievement in that area is the law that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/07\/30\/g-s1-14346\/medicare-lower-drug-prices-negotiations\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/07\/30\/g-s1-14346\/medicare-lower-drug-prices-negotiations\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" 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: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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 Sydney Lupkin for NPR) One of the first things President Biden touted in his announcement that he was bowing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,15],"tags":[385,238,61,1456,65,94],"class_list":["post-23144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-negotiations","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144","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=23144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23145,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions\/23145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}