{"id":8292,"date":"2017-09-29T07:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2017-09-29T07:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:46:55","slug":"out-of-pocket-costs-often-keep-pricey-new-cholesterol-drugs-out-of-reach-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8292","title":{"rendered":"Out-Of-Pocket Costs Often Keep Pricey New Cholesterol Drugs Out Of Reach, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Access to powerful new cholesterol-lowering drugs is so tightly controlled and patients\u2019 out-of-pocket costs are so high that fewer than a third of people whose doctors prescribe the drugs get them, a new\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background: #ffffff; color: #003b79; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; border-bottom-color: #cecece; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamacardiology\/fullarticle\/2654960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u00a0found. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/out-of-pocket-costs-often-keep-pricey-new-cholesterol-drugs-out-of-reach-study-finds\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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