{"id":1626,"date":"2024-10-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:00:00","slug":"ghosts-ghouls-and-ghastly-drug-prices-in-winning-halloween-haikus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts, Ghouls, and Ghastly Drug Prices in Winning Halloween Haikus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you dare, feast your eyes on this year\u2019s winners of KFF Health News\u2019 sixth annual Halloween Haiku contest. We received more than four dozen spooky submissions but only a few bubbled to the top of the cauldron. Here\u2019s the winner and the top runners-up, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges\u2019 favorites were inspired by blood shortages, high health care costs, and the eye-gouging price of prescription drugs. Keep an eye on KFF Health News\u2019 social media accounts (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KFFHealthNews\">X<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KFFHealthNews\/\">Instagram<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KFFHealthNews\/\">Facebook<\/a>) for more of our favorites. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1st Place<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Vampires don\u2019t scare me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Empty blood shelves, now that\u2019s fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roll up, save a life.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Crystal Decker\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>2nd Place<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What spooks me the most\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is not a ghoul or a ghost\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But steep health care bills.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Tom Cook\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>3rd Place<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>No, not eye-gouging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My costume is scarier:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pharma price-gouging.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Siri Palreddy<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>While Halloween may be coming to an end, KFF Health News reporting continues year-round.\u00a0<strong>Send us your haikus<\/strong>\u00a0at any time for possible inclusion in our Morning Briefing:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/contact-haiku\/\">https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/contact-haiku\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2023 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>2022 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/winning-halloween-haikus-2024-contest\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you dare, feast your eyes on this year\u2019s winners of KFF Health News\u2019 sixth annual Halloween Haiku contest. We received more than four dozen spooky submissions but only a few bubbled to the top of the cauldron. Here\u2019s the winner and the top runners-up, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges\u2019 favorites were inspired by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}