Drugs from Canada as a campaign issue?

It's curious to note that there's a bipartisan effort currently underway to block Bush's nominee for Medicare chief, over the government's refusal to allow Americans to import prescription medicines from Canada.

It makes me wonder if in the coming months, the Bush administration will soften its stance, then claim that the resulting "change" is an "improvement" for Medicare recipients, even though they were the ones who continued the rules in the first place.