{"id":1638,"date":"2018-03-03T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2018-03-03T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T16:58:10","slug":"march-3-prescription-costs-are-out-of-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"March 3 \u2013 Prescription Costs Are out of Hand!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"March 3 \u2013 Prescription Costs Are out of Hand!\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1638\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/030318_1658_March3Presc1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">I am very fortunate!!  I have prescription coverage and my copays are never more than $25.  I have 1 medication where the copay is $0!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">I met a patient recently who was not able to fill a prescription for his spouse because they do not have a prescription plan and the cost that one medicine ran above $ 400 for a 30-day supply.  I suggested he apply to the manufacturer of the medicine for break.  The response was that he did not quality because he made $ 50 more per month than their guidelines allow.  I do not feel people should have to go without medication because it is financially out of their reach!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I am very fortunate!! I have prescription coverage and my copays are never more than $25. I have 1 medication where the copay is $0! I met a patient recently who was not able to fill a prescription for his spouse because they do not have a prescription plan and the cost that one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March 3 \u2013 Prescription Costs Are out of Hand!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}