{"id":9309,"date":"2018-01-19T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2018-01-19T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:43:03","slug":"pence-says-that-congress-should-get-right-to-try-legislation-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9309","title":{"rendered":"Pence says that Congress should get right-to-try legislation \u2018DONE\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erin Mershon for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President Mike Pence publicly threw his support behind efforts to help terminally ill patients access experimental treatments in a Thursday morning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/953994196809076737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a>. \u201cLet\u2019s get this DONE,\u201d Pence said about the \u201cright-to-try\u201d legislation currently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/01\/08\/right-to-try-legislation-koch\/\">stalled in Congress<\/a>, citing a meeting earlier this week with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/01\/18\/mike-pence-right-to-try\/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=bf398cb4df-Pharmalot&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-bf398cb4df-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>Notice: 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 Erin Mershon for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President Mike Pence publicly threw his support behind efforts to help terminally<\/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-9309","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\/9309","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=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9310,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions\/9310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}