{"id":9230,"date":"2018-01-12T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2018-01-11T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:40:07","slug":"medicare-part-d-already-involves-price-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9230","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Part D already involves price negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Democrats are behind legislation (S.2011 and H.R. 4138), that would set prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. However, according to Devon Herrick, a policy analyst for The Heartland Institute, says \u201cMedicare Part D already involves price negotiations\u2026drug prices are negotiated by private Medicare Part D plans.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/news-opinion\/news\/support-grows-for-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-bill\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7795\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg 700w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Democrats are behind legislation (S.2011 and H.R. 4138), that would set prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. However, according<\/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-9230","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\/9230","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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9231,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}