{"id":4202,"date":"2016-09-07T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2016-09-07T08:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:31:23","slug":"allergan-ceo-promises-to-limit-price-hikes-on-drugs-in-a-bid-to-rebuild-the-social-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"Allergan CEO promises to limit price hikes on drugs in a bid to rebuild the \u2018social contract\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">S<\/span>eeking to deflect harsh criticism of the pharmaceutical industry, one chief executive officer \u2014 Allergan\u2019s Brent Saunders \u2014 has taken the unusual step of promising to avoid \u201cprice gouging\u201d and agreed to limit price hikes on brand-name medicines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/09\/06\/allergan-drug-prices-saunders-epipen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#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 Ed Silverman for STAT) Seeking to deflect harsh criticism of the pharmaceutical industry, one chief executive officer \u2014 Allergan\u2019s<\/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-4202","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\/4202","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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}