{"id":26366,"date":"2023-12-19T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26366"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:13:09","slug":"stat-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26366\/stat-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat of the Day:  Prescription Drug Prices Have ACCELERATED Since Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Inflation Reduction Act&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on our latest Liberty Update <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/6614-biden-administration-thuggishly-seeks-march-in-power-to-seize-private-drug-patents\">commentary<\/a> highlighting the deepening disaster that is the Biden Administration healthcare and pharmaceutical policy, <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bidens-drug-price-boomerang-630d284d?mod=itp_wsj&amp;ru=yahoo\">notes<\/a> that prescription drug prices have actually ACCELERATED their price inflation since Biden&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Inflation Reduction Act&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prescription drug prices increased by 2% during the Trump Presidency owing to greater generic competition, yet they\u2019ve increased 5.5% so far under Mr. Biden. In November they rose at an annual rate of nearly 6%. Has the White House considered that the reason Americans don\u2019t believe that the President\u2019s policies have helped them is because they haven\u2019t?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden Administration needs to correct course for the benefit of Americans, not double down.\u00a0 But time is running out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on our latest Liberty Update commentary highlighting the deepening disaster that is the Biden Administration healthcare and pharmaceutical policy, The Wall Street Journal notes that prescription drug prices have actually ACCELERATED their price inflation since Biden&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Inflation Reduction Act&#8221;: Prescription drug prices increased by 2% during the Trump Presidency owing to greater [&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":[5203,5238,5048,500,2871,2872,5057,4805,5068],"class_list":["post-26366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bayh-dole","tag-bidenomics","tag-drug-prices","tag-inflation","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-patents","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-prescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366","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=26366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26369,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions\/26369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}