{"id":83537,"date":"2018-10-12T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/dying-to-survive-gets-real-china-cuts-price-of-life-saving-cancer-drugs"},"modified":"2018-10-12T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:22:23","slug":"dying-to-survive-gets-real-china-cuts-price-of-life-saving-cancer-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/dying-to-survive-gets-real-china-cuts-price-of-life-saving-cancer-drugs","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dying to Survive\u2019 gets real: China cuts price of life-saving cancer drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dying-to-survive-gets-real-china-cuts-price-of-life-saving-cancer-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has included 17 life-saving cancer drugs in its national public insurance after negotiations drastically cut their prices, in response to their cost fuelling the smuggling of cheap drugs from abroad in an echo of the popular Chinese film Dying to Survive.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Costs slashed by over half on average, in wake of hit movie featuring the plight of those unable to afford prohibitively priced medicines and forced to look abroad.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2168136\/dying-survive-gets-real-china-cuts-price-life-saving-cancer-drugs\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2168136\/dyin...ncer-drugs<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has included 17 life-saving cancer drugs in its national public insurance after negotiations drastically cut their prices, in response to their cost fuelling the smuggling of cheap drugs from abroad in an echo of the popular Chinese film Dying to Survive. Costs slashed by over half on average, in wake of hit movie featuring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83537","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=83537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}