{"id":57339,"date":"2015-07-28T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57339"},"modified":"2015-07-28T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:27:08","slug":"hepatitis-c-drug-one-of-54-new-medications-covered-by-manitoba-pharmacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/28\/hepatitis-c-drug-one-of-54-new-medications-covered-by-manitoba-pharmacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis C drug one of 54 new medications covered by Manitoba pharmacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23218\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Regular_strength_enteric_coated_aspirin_tablets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23218\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Regular_strength_enteric_coated_aspirin_tablets-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo from Wikimedia Commons\/Ragesoss) \" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Regular_strength_enteric_coated_aspirin_tablets-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Regular_strength_enteric_coated_aspirin_tablets-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Regular_strength_enteric_coated_aspirin_tablets.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from Wikimedia Commons\/Ragesoss)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Drugs to treat hepatitis C, epilepsy and diabetes are among 54 medications newly covered under Manitoba\u2019s pharmacare program<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacare is a universal prescription drug benefit plan that covers the costs of eligible drugs up to 100 per cent, depending on family income.<\/p>\n<p>Two dozen of the 54 drugs added recently are generic medications.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage for the new drugs came into effect on July 22.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Sharon Blady said in an email statement that the Manitoba government has added about 4,500 drugs to pharmacare in the last 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>Other drugs now on the formulary are used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, HIV and as contraception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Drugs to treat hepatitis C, epilepsy and diabetes are among 54 medications newly covered under Manitoba\u2019s pharmacare program &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":23218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-57339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}