{"id":8383,"date":"2017-10-25T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:35:43","slug":"california-just-passed-a-law-to-rein-in-drug-prices-heres-why-its-unlikely-to-make-much-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"California just passed a law to rein in drug prices. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s unlikely to make much difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">Over bitter protests from the pharmaceutical industry, California this month\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2017\/10\/08\/california-drug-pricing-bill\/\">enacted a law<\/a>\u00a0that requires drug makers to explain and justify prices for some medicines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/10\/24\/california-drug-price-law\/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=7f0492ac6c-Pharmalot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-7f0492ac6c-149624405\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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; medicarereport.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) Over bitter protests from the pharmaceutical industry, California this month\u00a0enacted a law\u00a0that requires drug makers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}