{"id":8912,"date":"2017-12-12T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8912"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:06:24","slug":"experts-tell-congress-how-to-cut-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8912","title":{"rendered":"Experts Tell Congress How To Cut Drug Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s most influential science advisory group will tell Congress today that the U.S. pharmaceutical market is not sustainable and needs to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrugs that are not affordable are of little value and drugs that do not exist are of no value,\u201d said Norman Augustine, chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine\u2019s committee on drug pricing and former CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp.<a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/experts-tell-congress-how-to-cut-drug-prices\/\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"67\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) The nation\u2019s most influential science advisory group will tell Congress today that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912","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=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8913,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}