{"id":786,"date":"2015-09-03T00:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T04:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=786"},"modified":"2015-09-02T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:19:41","slug":"bernie-sanders-advocates-medicare-ability-to-negotiate-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders advocates Medicare ability to negotiate drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders commented recently on a bill he&#8217;s sponsoring titled &#8220;The Prescription Drug Affordability Act of 2015,&#8221; reporting that the legislation&#8217;s objective is to curtail the growth in prescription drug prices. In an article\u00a0Bronwyn Mixter posted on\u00a0www.bna.com, comments from representatives of the\u00a0pharmaceutical community are reviewed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bna.com\/medicare-cant-negotiate-b17179935511\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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; 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders commented recently on a bill he&#8217;s sponsoring titled &#8220;The Prescription Drug Affordability Act of 2015,&#8221; reporting<\/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-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}