Republicans love the elderly, who mostly vote for them despite their interests. Early onset, one has to guess.

Despite talk of reform, drug prices keep climbing.

And because of that the wife and I - staunch Democrats - have hit the donut hole sooner rather than later, this year, and will be paying bigger for each suddenly more expensive prescription.

Combivent Respimat, for example, was eight hundred and some dollars, last year, for three 30-day canisters.

Last week it was over twelve hundred.