{"id":15790,"date":"2021-01-30T00:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=156400"},"modified":"2021-01-30T00:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:19:03","slug":"new-report-from-rep-katie-porter-reveals-how-big-pharma-pursues-killer-profits-at-the-expense-of-americans-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/30\/new-report-from-rep-katie-porter-reveals-how-big-pharma-pursues-killer-profits-at-the-expense-of-americans-health\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues &#8216;Killer Profits&#8217; at the Expense of Americans&#8217; Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Brett Wilkins, staff writer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s time we reevaluate the standards for approving these mergers. It&#8217;s time we pass legislation to lower drug prices. And it&#8217;s time we rethink the structure of leadership at big pharmaceutical companies.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/headline\/thumbs\/katie_porter_1_0_0.jpg?itok=GQxssSCr\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"A new report from Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) takes pharmaceutical companies to task for their merger and acquisition activities. (Photo: Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.) \" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/29\/new-report-from-rep-katie-porter-reveals-how-big-pharma-pursues-killer-profits-at-the-expense-of-americans-health\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Wilkins, staff writer \u201cIt\u2019s time we reevaluate the standards for approving these mergers. It\u2019s time we pass legislation to lower drug prices. And it\u2019s time we rethink\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15791,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions\/15791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}