{"id":3756,"date":"2016-07-29T11:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2016-07-29T11:20:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:20:50","slug":"gilead-hep-c-drug-prices-blamed-for-englands-health-service-rationing-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"Gilead hep C drug prices blamed for England\u2019s health service rationing treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>Faced with budgetary constraints, England\u2019s National Health Service took several controversial steps to delay coverage of Gilead Sciences\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/05\/31\/gilead-hepatitis-drug-prices-who\/\" target=\"_blank\">pricey hepatitis C treatments<\/a>, but did so at the expense of patients, according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/354\/bmj.i4117\" target=\"_blank\">investigation<\/a> by the BMJ, the UK medical journal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/07\/28\/gilead-hepatitis-drug-prices\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_orF0dRHSqzoRNbEtaIpmvUDQvjoVhRvJFbMTyuxx9YbLRIYfdkZW4TcdLdaKwYrshMMBvNRPLlQ6u3EjX-zUpDRlWIg&amp;_hsmi=32258856\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;<\/a><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) Faced with budgetary constraints, England\u2019s National Health Service took several controversial steps to delay coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}