{"id":131,"date":"2004-08-02T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2004-08-02T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T21:39:06","slug":"kerry-health-plan-would-force-drugmakers-to-accept-lower-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/02\/kerry-health-plan-would-force-drugmakers-to-accept-lower-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Health Plan Would Force Drugmakers to Accept Lower Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry&#8217;s plan to make health care a right and &#8220;not a privilege&#8221; would give the U.S. government the leverage to force drug companies to cut some prices in half.<\/p>\n<p>President George W. Bush, 58, opposes direct negotiation of prices with the $466 billion pharmaceutical industry. Most of the federal health-care system is already prohibited from such negotiations, in contrast to Canada and Europe, where governments have broad authority to influence prices.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry, 60, wants a negotiation policy that would mirror the Veterans Affairs Department, which gets discounts of as much as 65 percent off average wholesale prices of drugs by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., GlaxoSmithKline Plc and AstraZeneca Plc<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quote.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&amp;sid=aPeiNICRh3KA&amp;refer=us\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg reports: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry&#8217;s plan to make health care a right and &#8220;not a privilege&#8221; would give the U.S. government the leverage to force drug companies to cut some prices in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}