{"id":1414,"date":"2012-09-07T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2012-09-07T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:44:44","slug":"and-we-wonder-why-we-cant-control-medical-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/07\/and-we-wonder-why-we-cant-control-medical-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"And we wonder why we can&#8217;t control medical costs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital agrees to cut woman&#8217;s $83,046 bill<br \/>\nAnti-venom that sells for $100 in Mexico cost her almost $40,000 a dose in Arizona<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20120907\/NEWS07\/309070043\/Hospital-agrees-to-cut-woman-s-83-046-bill?nclick_check=1\">http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20120907\/NEWS07\/309070043\/Hospital-agrees-to-cut-woman-s-83-046-bill?nclick_check=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTennessee-based Rare Disease Therapeutics sold the drug to a distributor for $3,500 a dose. The distributor charged hospitals about $3,780 a dose. Pharmacies in Mexico charge about $100 a dose.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kinda says it all, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital agrees to cut woman&#8217;s $83,046 bill Anti-venom that sells for $100 in Mexico cost her almost $40,000 a dose in Arizona http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20120907\/NEWS07\/309070043\/Hospital-agrees-to-cut-woman-s-83-046-bill?nclick_check=1 Get this: Tennessee-based Rare Disease Therapeutics sold the drug to a distributor for $3,500 a dose. The distributor charged hospitals about $3,780 a dose. Pharmacies in Mexico charge about $100 a dose. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/07\/and-we-wonder-why-we-cant-control-medical-costs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And we wonder why we can&#8217;t control medical costs&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}