{"id":6991,"date":"2018-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/four-ways-canadians-can-save-money-on-prescription-meds\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T05:00:00","slug":"four-ways-canadians-can-save-money-on-prescription-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/four-ways-canadians-can-save-money-on-prescription-meds\/","title":{"rendered":"Four ways Canadians can save money on prescription meds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Canadians pay for their prescription drugs privately \u0096 either through private insurance programs or out of pocket<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/personal-finance\/household-finances\/four-ways-canadians-can-save-money-on-prescription-meds\/article33825086\/\">Four ways Canadians can save money on prescription meds<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>As Canadians, we are proud of our universal health-care system, which provides publicly funded essential doctor and hospital care based on need and not ability to pay. Unfortunately, our health system falls short when it comes to prescription medication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Canadians pay for their prescription drugs privately \u0096 either through private insurance programs or out of pocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/FRAYjA_8BkAVyRLqFJprq_QjeUQ=\/560x0\/filters:quality(80)\/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6ZTGN7EPPNAFXBR4P6QTNTFTWM","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[267,269,268,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-health_care_costs","9":"tag-pharmacy_tips","10":"tag-prescriptions","11":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}