{"id":191793,"date":"2009-06-23T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/23\/elections-make-a-difference-prescription-drug-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:34:00","slug":"elections-make-a-difference-prescription-drug-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/23\/elections-make-a-difference-prescription-drug-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections Make a Difference: Prescription Drug Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission is coming out in support of legislation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=anFlm0rOTLzI\">outlawing pay for delay deals<\/a> between brand-name and generic drug manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Pay for delay is where the drug maker that created a drug pays generic drug manufacturers <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not<\/span> to make a generic equivalent once the patent has expired.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating this practice should save consumers about $35 billion over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission is coming out in support of legislation outlawing pay for delay deals between brand-name and generic drug manufacturers. Pay for delay is where the drug maker that created a drug pays generic drug manufacturers not to make a generic equivalent once the patent has expired. Eliminating this practice should save consumers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020,1074,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-medical","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}