{"id":639396,"date":"2026-04-30T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639396\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:20:09","slug":"prescription-drug-program-expanding-vocm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639396\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescription Drug Program Expanding | VOCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pills-Drugs-Prescription.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Prescription Drug Program Expanding\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister says $26 million dollars has been budgeted to expand the prescription drug program. <\/p>\n<p>Craig Pardy told VOCM Open Line with guest host Darrin Bent that the list of prescription drugs added to the program has yet to be announced. <\/p>\n<p>He says the health minister may announce the list of new drugs \u201cin due course.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Finance Minister says $26 million dollars has been budgeted to expand the prescription drug program. Craig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-639396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}