After signing the March budget deal, President Trump told Congress, "I will never sign another bill like this again" – a "Christmas tree" full of perks for special interests negotiated in secret and then thrust on the public, rank-and-file lawmakers, and even the president as a fait accompli. Problem is, a lot of damage has already been done.  For one thing, that bill spends a huge amount of money, putting our nation deeper into debt. But Congress, in its recent spate of hasty spending bills, has enacted numerous policy changes, most of which are the type that lobbyists know to wait for some massive catchall bill to insert into, such that there's little debate on the matter, owing to the sheer number of subjects up for consideration in one legislative vehicle. One of those is creating massive instability in the pharmaceutical drug market because it dramatically changed how the Medicare Part D program works, basically as a bailout to...(Read Full Post)