{"id":1084245,"date":"2023-06-13T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=9e827d51b2be9037042821451b8c5ada"},"modified":"2023-06-13T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:54:51","slug":"sanders-will-block-health-nominees-until-biden-offers-plan-to-lower-drug-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/13\/sanders-will-block-health-nominees-until-biden-offers-plan-to-lower-drug-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Will Block Health Nominees Until Biden Offers Plan to Lower Drug Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has fired a shot across the bow to the White House in his latest move in his quest to lower prescription drug prices in the U.S. Sanders has vowed to oppose all health-related nominees, including President Joe Biden&rsquo;s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), until the Biden administration presents a &ldquo;comprehensive&rdquo; plan to address the prescription...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/sanders-will-block-health-nominees-until-biden-offers-plan-to-lower-drug-prices\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/sanders-will-block-health-nominees-until-biden-offers-plan-to-lower-drug-prices\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As chair of the Senate HELP Committee, Sanders has the unilateral power to block health-related nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3387,5743,5931,51,4,15037,6183],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084245"}],"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=1084245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084246,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084245\/revisions\/1084246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}