I just read about a speech by John Edwards in which he accussed the Bush capaign of lying about, well, virtually everything. of course, it's the right that name-calls and such, when the left says rude things, it's not name-calling, it's justice, right? Anyway, one of the things he mentioned was that Bush says Kerry is going to make a new health care plan for $1.5 trillion. Edwards' response was that none of the programs wills be new, they will just strengthen older programs, and it wil only be $800 billion. Wow, he's right, Bush lied. Granted, every single spending program the government creates at least doubles from its initial estimates, so Bush's $1.5 trillion is probably closer to the truth. Edwards also said that their new health care ideas will allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from Canada. A few things about that.... First off, won't that take jobs and money away from Americans and give it to Canadians? Isn't that tantamount to outsourcing, which Kerry is always bashing Bush for, despite the fact that outsourcing is a myth, since more jobs are outsourced from other countries to us, than the other way around? Won't it really hurt people who work for pharmaceutical companies? Second, my understanding about the fact that drugs are cheaper in Canada is two-fold. One, Canada has a socialized health care system which is falling apart, and the drug part is a huge drain because it lowers the revenue of health care firms, and makes it so they cannot afford to offer the proper services as well as before. Two, and most importantly, trial lawyers like Edwards have caused so many extra, unneccessary regulations on drug manufacturers in this country, that it is literally impossible to sell drugs at affordable prices, not break any laws, and still be able to pay their employees. Then again, if Kerry has his way, people wikl buy their drugs from Canada, so the US drug companies won't have to worry about paying employess, they'll just lay them off, which is the usual response when people stop buying a product.