re: What will you change when you become dictator?

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What about folks that need it?

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Medicare Part D was a love letter from "Dubya" to pharmaceutical companies.

Somehow the country survived 230+ years without Medicare Part D, which was passed in 2006. Average life expectancy was 78 years. During the 17 years of Medicare Part D, life expectancy peaked at 79 years and then started declining.

Medicare Part D costs taxpayers in excess of $110 billion per year. That's what the federal government is spending on granny's pills.

If that $110 billion per year went away, I don't think the health or longevity of the American people would suffer in any major way. Granny's doctor would find generics and alternate therapies that she could actually afford.

We'd also stop getting so many damned pharmaceutical ads. A lot of those "new pills" are really just reformulations of the same basic shite anyway.