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Pharmaceutical companies and seniors are the beneficiaries

This is the way legislation works as a rule. You do what you need to do to get the support of 2 very interested motivated groups who stand to benefit dramatically and they support it ferociously. The population at large are less effected so they don't fight against it as hard as the beneficiaries fight for it.

Realistically speaking what is this program costing me? Maybe 100 bucks a year right now? Compare that to the huge benefits for a senior who gets thousands or a drug company that gets millions. They will fight much harder for it than I will against it.

That is exactly why money is so badly misappropriated in Washington. A bridge to nowhere costs maybe a dollar out of my pocket. I won't fight that hard against it because my time is limited and the cost is low but you can betcha the folks in Alaska will fight with the ferocity of wild animals to keep it because they benefit an awful lot.