Elizabeth Edwards on Health Care
Thursday, October 02 2008
by Rose Hoban
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Elizabeth Edwards visited a Carrboro clinic to lead a roundtable on health care. She skewered Republican presidential candidate John McCain's proposals on health care. But she declined to endorse Senator Barack Obama's plan. Edwards says the only health care plan that makes sense would be one that mandates coverage for everyone. She compares it to car insurance.
"Not everybody’s going to have an automobile accident, but everybody buys the insurance and therefore it costs each of us a little less. Not everybody’s house is going to catch on fire, but we all buy the insurance and it costs us a little less. If only sick people bought insurance it would cost us lots, lots more. So it’s important that everybody share the burden and the protection of being insured."
Edwards says she'll spend from now until election day talking publicly about health care. She says she's feeling fine and her doctors tell her her cancer has not progressed.
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