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Where's the health care program that Trump has been promising his entire term in office?

"Gotta tell ya," now at 80 years old, I never envisioned this situation when I started paying taxes in 1956. This is when I need some Pollyanna wearing rose-colored glasses to tell me I'm too negative. Today, I found out my two new medications will cost me $570 per month for the rest of my life. And yes, I have insurance. Just for the giggles, I checked pharmacies in Canada and Mexico for the one med that costs $477 for a 30-day supply. It was between $45 and$47 in those countries. Well, knowing both of these countries are more affluent than ours, it made sense. Wait a minute. We're the wealthiest country in the world, so what's up? Then I remembered, the Medicare Part D prescription coverage bill became law by a vote that was held in the early morning hours of an extended session in 2003. Early hours because no one would be watching C-Span. To get it passed, Congress made concessions to Big Pharma, which prohibited Medicare from negotiating with them for vo

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