{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/people-dont-take-their-pills-only-one-thing-seems-to-help", "People Dont Take Their Pills. Only One Thing Seems to Help.", "2017-12-11", "2017", "2017-12", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "People Don\u2019t Take Their Pills. Only One Thing Seems to Help.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t By:\u00a0 Austin Frakt \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tMonday, December 11, 2017\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tFor all that Americans spend on prescription drugs \u2014\u00a0$425 billion last year \u2014 you\u2019d think we\u2019d actually take our medicine.\r\nBut one of the frustrating truths about American health care is that half or more of prescribed medication is never taken.\r\nIt\u2019s called medication nonadherence, and it\u2019s a\u00a0well-documented\u00a0and\u00a0longstanding\u00a0problem, particularly for patients with chronic conditions. The drugs they\u2019re prescribed are intended to\u00a0prevent costly complications, reduce hospitalization, even keep them alive. But even when the stakes are high, many patients don\u2019t take their meds.\r\nThis seems like a problem we ought to be able to solve. It motivates high tech approaches,\u00a0like digital pills\u00a0that can automatically communicate to doctors that they\u2019ve been taken.\r\nContinue reading here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/people-dont-take-their-pills-only-one-thing-seems-to-help"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.17902909591794, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}