{"id":67475,"date":"2018-07-20T06:26:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67475"},"modified":"2018-07-20T06:26:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:26:49","slug":"so-tired-of-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67475","title":{"rendered":"So Tired Of Winning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug companies are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/18\/health\/novartis-drug-price-increase.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=health&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=2&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\">freezing prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-1h6whtw\">\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">Novartis\u2019s chief executive, Vas Narasimhan, said during an earnings call with investors that the company had made the decision in June, amid escalating outrage over high drug prices. \u201cWe thought that was prudent, given the dynamic environment we\u2019re currently in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">A spokesman for Novartis said the company notified the state of California, which has a new drug-price transparency law, of its decision in June, but the news was not widely known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who&#8217;d have thunk it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug companies are freezing prices. Novartis\u2019s chief executive, Vas Narasimhan, said during an earnings call with investors that the company had made the decision in June, amid escalating outrage over high drug prices. \u201cWe thought that was prudent, given the dynamic environment we\u2019re currently in,\u201d he said. A spokesman for Novartis said the company notified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67476,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67475\/revisions\/67476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}