{"id":4320,"date":"2016-09-16T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2016-09-16T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:28:18","slug":"bipartisan-bill-in-congress-would-require-drug-makers-to-justify-limit-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4320","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan bill in Congress would require drug makers to justify, limit price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">I<\/span>n response to the intensifying outrage over the cost of medicines, a bipartisan group of lawmakers Thursday introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/freepdfhosting.com\/9e6fc3ef5b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a bill<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> that would require drug makers to justify their pricing and provide a breakdown of their costs before raising prices on certain products by more than 10 percent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/09\/15\/dc-legislators-propose-bill-justifying-drug-prices\/\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) In response to the intensifying outrage over the cost of medicines, a bipartisan group of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","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=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}