Think again, Edwards supporters (of which I am not one, btw). Edwards, like the rest of the candidates, have been spelling out (most misspelling) their ideas to fix the health care/health insurance nightmare in this country. Edwards idea? State mandated health care coverage for every woman, man and child.
Your progressive, bleeding heart is applauding this concept, right? Of course it is. Mine stood up and cheered at first. Until I read the following (I added the bold for emphasis):
TIPTON, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.
"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."
He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem."
This should trigger a knee-jerk reaction in every American who values FREEDOM OF CHOICE when it comes to our health care practices. A reaction that will turn away every Edwards supporter.
This lack of balance is absurd. There is no reason not to have a State Plan that pays for coverage for all and is paid for by the State, giving people the freedom to sign up with said plan or stay with their existing private insurer, giving the people the freedom of choice, leaving the true health care decision-making where it belongs: between the patient and health care practitioner, all while Uncle Sam pays the bill (just like they expect YOU AND I to do for THEIR health care coverage). Having been on such a State Plan once myself, where services were covered, no co-pays or premiums and certainly no policy stipulating what I HAD to do or that I HAD to use their services, it can indeed work. If of course a balanced approach is taken, something that seems utterly lacking in today's Big Brother/Big Corporate America.
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can't we just make our health care system like canada's? or england or france? or any other industrialized nations?
edwards is a tool. i hate to say it, but unfortunately it seems to be the case.
it's frustrating, huh? why doesn't he promote HR 676, the bill ALREADY ON THE TABLE?! why is he so thirsty to require people to go to the doctor?
as you said, likely because he's a tool. another pawn. or in this case perhaps, another shark in the water. i read his ideas on eliminating poverty. pa the tic.
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