{"id":1504,"date":"2016-08-15T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2016-12-26T19:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:00:51","slug":"bernie-sanders-big-pharma-a-health-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/2016\/08\/15\/bernie-sanders-big-pharma-a-health-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/582\/31899779125_abda05a0c1_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/582\/31899779125_abda05a0c1_b.jpg\" width=\"150\"  class=\"alignright size-medium\" \/><\/a>Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard<br \/>\nBy Bay Area News Corp<\/p>\n<p>(Aug. 15, 2016 1:38 p.m.) &#8212; The pharmaceutical industry has become a major health hazard to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Our nation pays \u2014 by far \u2014 the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. As a result, nearly one in five Americans cannot afford to fill their prescriptions. That is unacceptable. A lifesaving product does no good if patients cannot afford it.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from Americans for Tax Fairness explains how a pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences, games the system to charge high prices and then shifts the profits offshore to avoid billions in U.S. taxes.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2016\/08\/15\/bernie-sanders-big-pharma-a-health-hazard\/\">Read more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard By Bay Area News Corp (Aug. 15, 2016 1:38 p.m.) &#8212; The pharmaceutical industry has become a major health hazard to the American people. Our nation pays \u2014 by far \u2014 the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. As a result, nearly one in five Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,29,84],"tags":[1299,889,1303,1302,129,1300,1305,832,1307,413,1304,126,1301,550,524,1306,1308],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders-2016","category-news","category-politics","tag-1299","tag-a-future-to-believe-in","tag-aftf","tag-americans-for-tax-fairness","tag-campaign-2016","tag-east-bay-times","tag-gilead-sciences","tag-green-party","tag-hepatitis-c","tag-monopoly","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-political-revolution","tag-prescription-drugs","tag-presidential-campaign-2016","tag-progressive","tag-sovaldi","tag-virus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}