It is ALL about entitlements and the only thing Bush did in terms of entitlements is MAKE THEM WORSE with his drug entitlement.
An overwhelming majority of Americans supported a drug entitlement for the elderly. It made sense to spend hundreds of dollars on medicine, as opposed to thousands or hundreds of thousands on hospitilizations the would occur because of lack of medicines. Bush used a private insurance companies to put that program into effect, and it has come in over 40% below estimated costs.
Kerry would have given us a single payer, bureaucratic nightmare that would have strangled pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
He did the best he could with the cards he was dealt...just as he always did.