{"id":726,"date":"2015-08-25T00:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T04:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=726"},"modified":"2015-08-24T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T01:48:14","slug":"let-medicare-negotiate-lower-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Let Medicare negotiate lower drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0www.sun-sentinel.com)<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0any members of Congress are looking for compromise instead of confrontation, the August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll offers a sure winner. Seventy-two percent of poll respondents said prescription drug prices are &#8220;unreasonable.&#8221; What&#8217;s more, 83 percent favor the federal government doing something about it that is eminently reasonable: They want the feds to be able to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to get lower prices on medications for people on Medicare. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/opinion\/editorials\/fl-editorial-medicare-drug-prices-20150824-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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>(Source &#8211;\u00a0www.sun-sentinel.com) If\u00a0any members of Congress are looking for compromise instead of confrontation, the August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll offers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}