{"id":3145,"date":"2011-09-21T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T23:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2011-09-21T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T23:35:33","slug":"more-prescription-drugs-do-not-mean-better-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"More Prescription Drugs Do Not Mean Better Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average American now takes close to 12 prescription drugs yearly but a new study shows that increased drug spending does not translate to better Medicare. Let&#8217;s see, 12 prescription drugs, each with an average of 70 side effects, that&#8217;s 12 x 70 = 840 side effect possibilities. Can&#8217;t see that being good for a body. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2010\/12\/11\/more-drugs-do-not-mean-better-care.aspx?np=true\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2010\/12\/11\/more-drugs-do-not-mean-better-care.aspx?np=true<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average American now takes close to 12 prescription drugs yearly but a new study shows that increased drug spending does not translate to better Medicare. Let&#8217;s see, 12 prescription drugs, each with an average of 70 side effects, that&#8217;s 12 x 70 = 840 side effect possibilities. Can&#8217;t see that being good for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Prescription Drugs Do Not Mean Better Care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}