{"id":798360,"date":"2019-08-08T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369650"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T18:20:45","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-leaders-must-take-action-on-out-of-pocket-costs-for-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-leaders-must-take-action-on-out-of-pocket-costs-for-prescription-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Leaders must take action on out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for leaders in Washington to take action to lower out-of-pocket costs on medicines for patients who invest in their own health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>I am among the Coloradans who purchase an individual health plan on the exchange. Overall, I consider myself healthy for my age, but I need multiple prescription drugs for blood pressure and joint pain. The out-of-pocket costs under my plan can be unbelievably high, and this does a disservice to patients like me.<\/p>\n<p>Congress should make sure that individual health plans offer good prescription drug coverage with reasonable out-of-pocket costs to patients. Prescription medications are vital today for managing chronic conditions and keeping people from needing other, more expensive care. It makes sense to ensure co-pays for pharmaceutical therapies are affordable so Coloradans can stay on their prescribed medicines.<\/p>\n<p>The need for change is especially strong in the individual health plan market, and I am looking to Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet to address the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-leaders-must-take-action-on-out-of-pocket-costs-for-prescription-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for leaders in Washington to take action to lower out-of-pocket costs on medicines for patients who invest in their own health insurance. I am among the Coloradans who purchase an individual health plan on the exchange. Overall, I consider myself healthy for my age, but I need multiple prescription drugs for blood pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 21:51:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}