You would never pay a restaurant bill without an itemized check. And if that bill charged you twice for the same steak, you would dispute it on the spot. 

Unfortunately, federal programs don’t always operate using this kind of common sense. In fact, the 340B drug discount program, which moves more than $100 billion a year, has never worked that way. 

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