{"id":2540,"date":"2016-04-11T07:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:37:53","slug":"prescription-drug-costs-projected-to-continue-upward-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"Prescription Drug Costs Projected to Continue Upward Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret to anybody that the cost of prescription drugs is continuing its upward march&#8211;over 12% in 2014, with projections for increases of over 7% annually for the next few years. The Wall Street Journal recently held an on-line forum to discuss ways to deal with the matter, and WSJ Reporter\u00a0Jonathan D. Rockoff provides a recap of the commentary in an article posted at \u00a0topics.wsj.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-do-we-deal-with-rising-drug-costs-1460340357\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\u00a0\u00a0on 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.<\/pre>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret to anybody that the cost of prescription drugs is continuing its upward march&#8211;over 12% in 2014, with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","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\/2540","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}