{"id":4966,"date":"2016-11-07T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2016-11-07T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:27:09","slug":"this-drug-discount-program-is-good-for-americans-but-pharma-wants-to-gut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4966","title":{"rendered":"This drug discount program is good for Americans. But pharma wants to gut it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ted Slafsky for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">S<\/span>ticker shock over the cost of drugs isn\u2019t going away any time soon. Drug prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2016\/10\/18\/world\/data-shows-drug-prices-spiked-seven-percent-last-year\" target=\"_blank\">spiked 7 percent<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> last year, the highest rate since 1992. Compare that with the modest increase of just <a href=\"http:\/\/altarum.org\/sites\/default\/files\/uploaded-related-files\/CSHS-Price-Brief_September_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">0.8 percent in hospital care costs<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">2<\/sup>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/11\/01\/pharmaceutical-federal-drug-discount-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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 Ted Slafsky for STAT) Sticker shock over the cost of drugs isn\u2019t going away any time soon. Drug prices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}