Recent Republican primaries have given us a lot to celebrate, as so many establishment candidates have lost to America First ones. One that’s caught a lot of attention is the loss of Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who was such a RINO he could have applied for endangered species status.

This is the first time in nearly 15 years that a sitting U.S. senator lost a primary in a non-special election. But there’s an extra reason to cheer that Cassidy got scalped over the weekend. Cassidy was a long-time hater of 340B, a healthcare program that benefits mostly rural, Republican voters, including many of the Louisianans Cassidy is supposed to be representing.

We have talked about it here before. The 340B drug discount program has reduced outpatient costs, kept healthcare providers in rural America open, and cut costs for what many Americans pay for lifesaving medications. Started in 1992, 340B requires that drug manufacturers discount prices for medication sold to what are called covered entities: hospitals and clinics that treat a certain threshold of Medicaid patients.

340B was created with the idea that the government should use its leverage to get better deals rather than the other way around (which happens so much). So if drug companies want........

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