{"id":3971,"date":"2016-08-17T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2016-08-17T08:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T12:04:35","slug":"laws-to-shed-light-on-drug-pricing-strategies-probably-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Laws to shed light on drug pricing strategies probably won\u2019t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">F<\/span>rom coast to coast, state lawmakers are pushing legislation in hopes of putting a lid on rising drug prices. More than a dozen bills have been proposed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/06\/02\/drug-prices-transparency-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">require companies<\/a> to either fork over information about their costs or explain recent price hikes for some medicines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/08\/16\/drug-pricing-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) From coast to coast, state lawmakers are pushing legislation in hopes of putting a lid<\/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-3971","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\/3971","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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}