{"id":3941,"date":"2016-08-14T05:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:51:02","slug":"clinton-and-trump-are-both-wrong-about-medicares-ability-to-negotiate-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"Clinton and Trump are both wrong about Medicare\u2019s ability to negotiate drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Geoffrey F. Joyce and Neeraj Sood for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/04\/11\/phrma-steve-ubl-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/01\/26\/trump-negotiate-drug-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> agree that Medicare bureaucrats should be unleashed to negotiate lower prices with drug companies, and predict billions of dollars in savings as a result.\u00a0In this political era when any common ground between these two adversaries should be venerated, it is a shame that we must point out that they are both wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/08\/12\/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-medicare\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8agRLx4ChArXO7AehQ2Kz6aF-i2x_cbW9J1OdrdR_YeaMoYtojmsv_ktKZ2bipoWcuAgAocx_Ye7SP1OYjhst4NLGXFQ&amp;_hsmi=32858954\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;.<\/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>(By Geoffrey F. Joyce and Neeraj Sood for STAT) Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agree that Medicare bureaucrats should be<\/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-3941","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\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}