{"id":7296,"date":"2017-07-03T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2017-07-03T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:18:31","slug":"medicare-and-the-high-cost-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7296","title":{"rendered":"Medicare and the High Cost of Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some seniors enrolled in Medicare are at high risk of having their life savings completely wiped out due to the makeup of the Medicare program and the pricing power of drug developers. <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/business\/investment\/markets-and-stocks\/a-new-class-of-cancer-drugs-could-wipe-out-your\/article_82855b15-d9f0-57ff-a472-e9381654796a.html\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><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; 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>Some seniors enrolled in Medicare are at high risk of having their life savings completely wiped out due to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7297,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions\/7297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}