{"id":142493,"date":"2025-12-16T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142493"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:30:07","slug":"chinas-new-drug-insurance-lifeline-for-patients-or-squeeze-on-big-pharmaceutical-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142493","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new drug insurance: lifeline for patients or squeeze on big pharmaceutical firms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostMainland China\u2019s 17 million Alzheimer\u2019s patients can, for the first time, pay less out of pocket for a costly drug touted as \u201chistoric\u201d and \u201cthe beginning of the end\u201d for the memory-robbing disease after Beijing launched a commercial insurance innovative drug list in an effort to make medicines more accessible and affordable.<br \/>\nLeqembi, developed by Japan\u2019s Eisai and costing a mainland Chinese patient about US$28,400 a year, could see its price cut by half after it was added to the inaugural&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3336397\/chinas-new-drug-insurance-lifeline-patients-or-squeeze-big-pharmaceutical-firms?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostMainland China\u2019s 17 million Alzheimer\u2019s patients can, for the first time, pay less out of pocket for a costly drug touted as \u201chistoric\u201d and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}