 a massive spending boondoggle that did nothing to reduce inflation. It just made a bunch of money disappear down the usual rat holes. And it arguably made inflation worse in several areas, none of them more obviously so than health care spending. Health insurance drug costs went up because of the Inflation Reduction Act, not down. And some seniors are complaining about this or unhappy that their costs went up. And for some of the rest of us, we can always scratch our heads and say, wait,