In case you missed it, from yesterdayโ€™s Washington Post:

Success of Drug Plan Challenges Democrats Medicare Benefitโ€™s Cost Beat Estimates It sounded simple enough on the campaign trail: Free the government to negotiate lower drug prices and use the savings to plug a big gap in Medicareโ€™s new prescription-drug benefit. But as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, they are struggling to keep that promise without wrecking a program that has proven cheaper and more popular than anyone imagined.