{"id":4968,"date":"2016-11-08T08:44:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:44:49","slug":"californias-drug-price-initiative-will-voters-send-a-signal-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Drug Price Initiative: Will Voters \u2018Send A Signal To Washington\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Pauline Bartolone for California Healthline)<\/p>\n

This year, Mary O\u2019Connor and her father made voting a family affair.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connor\u2019s father is a Vietnam veteran, so she was especially interested in his views on Proposition 61<\/a>, a California ballot measure that would peg the state\u2019s payments for prescription drugs to prices paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs. It\u2019s widely believed the federal program for military personnel gets some of the deepest discounts<\/a> in the country. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was produced by Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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