{"id":87,"date":"2004-03-10T07:58:51","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T07:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2004-03-10T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T07:58:51","slug":"vts_bernie_sanders_on_us_drug_prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"VT&#8217;s Bernie Sanders on US Drug Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Say what you want about <a href=\"http:\/\/bernie.house.gov\/\">Bernie Sanders<\/a>, but he?is using the Web correctly.? He has a great Web site dedicated to drug price reform.? Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/bernie.house.gov\/prescriptions\/drugsheet.asp\">comparison<\/a> between US and Canadian prices on 50 commonly used drugs.? The <a href=\"http:\/\/bernie.house.gov\/prescriptions\/international.asp\">upshot of a study<\/a> his team put together is:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8230; that the average prices that senior citizens in Vermont must pay are 81% higher than the average prices that Canadian consumers must pay and 112% higher than the average prices that Mexican consumers must pay.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"\">John Robb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Say what you want about Bernie Sanders, but he?is using the Web correctly.? He has a great Web site dedicated to drug price reform.? Here is a comparison between US and Canadian prices on 50 commonly used drugs.? The upshot of a study his team put together is:&#8221; &#8230; that the average prices that senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}