Major pharmaceutical companies as well as health care providers are mobilizing this week in what will be an aggressive ad campaign aimed at attacking Barack Obama's health care initiatives.

You see, if Obama is able to regulate the cost of presccriptions through medicaide, those lovely CEO's of those major drug and health care companies will have to lose some of their precious millions, making them a little less rich than they were before.

This should disgust you Americans. The cost of prescription drugs is staggering, with and without insurance. I can recall an experience in graduate school in Australia when I had to buy a prescription for conjunctivitis ( thanks yucky kids!). I cried all the way to the drugstore because my insurance there didn't cover prescriptions. You can imagine my relief when the total bill amounted to... be prepared.... $11! You see their country has national healthcare, and in turn, can regulate prescription drug prices. I paid $11 dollars without insurance, think about it.

Many are uncomfortable with the thought of Universal Healthcare. I should bust a myth here. His healthcare plan would be elective. Don't worry, he's not the socialist that the GOP tried to convince you he was.

I think it's wonderful to try and make prescriptions more affordable. I have a hard time swallowing the fact that those on medicaide, and those who are privately insured, have great difficulty paying for medicine that they need.

Therefore, once these ads begin, here's some food for thought to munch on. If these companies can afford to pay millions of dollars to try and convince people of a falsehood that would only benefit them financially, shouldn't they be using that money to lower prescription drug costs?

Think about it.