{"id":88385,"date":"2021-01-30T22:03:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T03:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=88385"},"modified":"2021-01-30T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T03:04:04","slug":"americas-prescription-drug-cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/americas-prescription-drug-cartel\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Prescription Drug Cartel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States has the most expensive prescription drugs in the world. We often pay ten times the price for the same drug, even though there&#8217;s no difference at all. Why is American healthcare so expensive? In this episode, we take a brief look at America&#8217;s prescription drug cartel, and why one critical drug, insulin, is so absurdly expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America&#039;s Prescription Drug Cartel\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nuiUt6VxhQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has the most expensive prescription drugs in the world. We often pay ten times the price for the same drug, even though there&#8217;s no difference at all. Why is American healthcare so expensive? In this episode, we take a brief look at America&#8217;s prescription drug cartel, and why one critical drug, insulin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,55,148,140,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-documentaries-movies-etc","category-events-sports-etc","category-exercise-health-and-resources","category-voting-politics-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}