{"id":15,"date":"2004-07-27T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-07-27T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T20:20:31","slug":"medicare-proposes-new-rules-on-2006-drug-benefit-health-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/27\/medicare-proposes-new-rules-on-2006-drug-benefit-health-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Proposes New Rules on 2006 Drug Benefit, Health Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quote.bloomberg.com\/\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Medicare said its proposed rules for its 2006 program to help the elderly afford prescription drugs will trim as much as 53 percent from patient drug costs, partly by getting discounts through pharmacy-benefit managers.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations would implement the centerpiece of the Medicare law that will cost more than $400 billion over 10 years, which President George W. Bush signed in December. The new drug benefit would be offered starting in 2006, and private insurers such as Aetna Inc. would operate it for the government.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quote.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&amp;sid=aSZhA3eC4nkk&amp;refer=us#\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg reports: Medicare said its proposed rules for its 2006 program to help the elderly afford prescription drugs will trim as much as 53 percent from patient drug costs, partly by getting discounts through&#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-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}