{"id":3324,"date":"2016-06-24T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:57:02","slug":"is-medicares-proposed-rule-violating-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"Is Medicare\u2019s Proposed Rule Violating Obamacare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">In a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-IA, a group of health providers and patient advocates expressed their concerns over the proposed Medicare\u2019s rule to pay for drugs is using a method that compares the potential benefits to patients from a drug to its overall cost, will lead to rationing of health care and is in direct violation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/06\/23\/critics-say-medicare-rule-could-cut-access-to-life-saving-drugs-violate-obamacare.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026..<\/a><\/span><\/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 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-IA, a group of health providers and patient advocates expressed<\/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-3324","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\/3324","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=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}