> I imagine one reason is that older people use a lot of medication, and the law that established Medicare Part D, which provides prescription drugs, forbids the government from negotiating the best possible prices for those drugs. The legislator who got this provision inserted into the law retired from Congress shortly thereafter and took a million-dollar-a year job as a lobbyist in the pharmaceutical industry.
> And that is how our government works ... or doesn't work, depending on your perspective.