{"id":26163,"date":"2022-11-17T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26163"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:48:19","slug":"stat-of-the-day-thanksgiving-costs-up-a-record-20-but-prescription-drug-prices-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26163\/stat-of-the-day-thanksgiving-costs-up-a-record-20-but-prescription-drug-prices-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat of the Day:  Thanksgiving Costs Up a Record 20%, but Prescription Drug Prices Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach Thanksgiving, you may have heard (or personally experienced) that the cost of Thanksgiving dinner this year is up <a href=\"https:\/\/currently.att.yahoo.com\/att\/cost-thanksgiving-dinner-sees-record-163720612.html\">a record 20%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, guess what&#8217;s actually declined in price, according to the federal government itself.\u00a0 That would be prescription drug prices, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.htm\">declined 0.1%<\/a> last month alone.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Biden Administration should focus on helping everyday Americans afford Thanksgiving, rather than artificially imposing <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/5992-drug-prices-remain-moderated-but-democrats-nevertheless-push-destructive-price-controls\">innovation-killing government price controls<\/a> on lifesaving drugs, which are actually declining in price and nowhere near the inflation rate afflicting other consumer costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach Thanksgiving, you may have heard (or personally experienced) that the cost of Thanksgiving dinner this year is up a record 20%. Meanwhile, guess what&#8217;s actually declined in price, according to the federal government itself.\u00a0 That would be prescription drug prices, which declined 0.1% last month alone. Perhaps the Biden Administration should focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5100,2871,2872,4805,3738,966],"class_list":["post-26163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-drug-price-controls","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-price-controls","tag-socialized-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26164,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions\/26164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}