{"id":76074,"date":"2018-02-19T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T09:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/chinese-city-touted-as-model-for-cutting-healthcare-costs"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T23:03:29","slug":"chinese-city-touted-as-model-for-cutting-healthcare-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/chinese-city-touted-as-model-for-cutting-healthcare-costs","title":{"rendered":"Chinese city touted as model for cutting healthcare costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-city-touted-as-model-for-cutting-healthcare-costs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sanming, a city of about 2.5m people in eastern China\u2019s Fujian province, has shown one way out of the conundrum \u2014 switching from premium drugs made by multinationals to cheaper local generics and cracking down on doctors taking kickbacks from distributors.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cheaper drugs cut burden on Sanming budget, but locals grumble over quality of care.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/59e947ba-d4cf-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/59e947ba-d4cf-11e7&#45;8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanming, a city of about 2.5m people in eastern China\u2019s Fujian province, has shown one way out of the conundrum \u2014 switching from premium drugs made by multinationals to cheaper local generics and cracking down on doctors taking kickbacks from distributors. Cheaper drugs cut burden on Sanming budget, but locals grumble over quality of care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76228,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76074\/revisions\/76228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}