{"id":2704,"date":"2016-04-26T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2016-04-26T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:12:41","slug":"would-federal-government-negotiations-on-drugs-lower-the-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"Would Federal Government Negotiations on Drugs Lower the Costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per the federal government\u2019s Congressional Budget Office, there will be \u201cnegligible effect\u201d on allowing the government to negotiate drug prices for the Medicare Part D program. Although the government negotiates for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the list of drugs on their formulary list is limited and would restrict Medicare beneficiaries\u2019 choices on treatment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/readers\/2016\/04\/25\/medicare-part-d-drug-negotion-wont-benefit-patients\/83352290\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026.<\/a><\/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 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>Per the federal government\u2019s Congressional Budget Office, there will be \u201cnegligible effect\u201d on allowing the government to negotiate drug prices<\/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-2704","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\/2704","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=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}