{"id":1070155,"date":"2023-06-06T18:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=165486b2da16f638133fc1e7c4c1ebaf"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:19:52","slug":"merck-sues-government-saying-plan-to-lower-medicare-drug-prices-is-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/06\/merck-sues-government-saying-plan-to-lower-medicare-drug-prices-is-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck Sues Government, Saying Plan to Lower Medicare Drug Prices Is \u201cExtortion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merck announced on Tuesday that it is suing the government over a recently approved plan to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, aiming to stop one of the nation&rsquo;s first efforts to take a small step toward lowering sky-high drug prices in the U.S. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington on Tuesday, claims that the plan is unconstitutional and calls it a &ldquo;sham&rdquo; and...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/merck-sues-government-saying-plan-to-lower-medicare-drug-prices-is-extortion\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/merck-sues-government-saying-plan-to-lower-medicare-drug-prices-is-extortion\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company claims that the plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices violates the First and Fifth Amendments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5743,51681,3493,51591,8621,31348,4,15037],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070156,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070155\/revisions\/1070156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}