Governor Bush says we ought to go back to the policies of eight years ago. Ask yourselves whether or not you're tired of the strongest economy in 224 years. He also added to his us versus them rhetoric that he unveiled during the Democratic National Convention in August by painting a picture of big drug companies and special interest groups rubbing their palms together in anticipation of a Bush win. Gore stated that the pharmaceutical industry is anticipating a Republican win so that a prescription drug benefit would not be passed and that they could continue charging high prices to keep their high profits. They are putting much more of their money into advertising than research and development.
Nobody speaks for seniors when they go to the pharmacy to buy their prescription drugs.
Seniors are on their own in this confrontation with the drug companies, and the drug companies like it that way. Gore used this statement to pledge that he would pass a benefit that would reduce the price of drugs for the nation's elderly. Bush's plan looks to private insurers to draft plans while using federal incentives as subsidies. My opponent will not. He'll talk and talk, and then he'll do exactly what the big drug companies want him to do.