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Edwards Backs Mandatory Preventive Care
TIPTON, Iowa - 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.
Well, whose gonna pay for all of this? Not to mention freedom of choice over one's medical condition.
Progressives don't believe in 'freedom of choice'. They believe that all goodness comes from the State, and that therefore the primary obligation of all citizens is to the State. Their heritage isn't the American revolution, you see, it's the French one ...
"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."
Can I opt out of the System? Or is that mandatory, too?
It's the System, Deacon. The System is not optional. Think inside the box, folks.
It'll just feel like you opted out when you have to wait four years to get your hip replaced ...
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." Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.
Tough noogies, people. The Government will require you to have these tests. What else will the Government require? Pre-birth testing for birth defects or hereditary diseases? Will they requie abortions for those fetuses deemed inferior?
Or for fetuses deemed superior?
One of their heroes is Margaret Sanger; connect the dots ...
Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.
The key phrase here is "Mandatory" This means everyone will be required to participate.
"The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death," he said.
The Government will have control of your life from Birth to Death. Is he really stupid enough to not recognize the ramifications of this? I think he is.
It's only mandatory for one of the Americas. The America he lives in will have a different set of rules. Always has, you know ...
The former North Carolina senator said all presidential candidates talking about health care "ought to be asked one question: Does your plan cover every single American? Because if it doesn't they should be made to explain what child, what woman, what man in America is not worthy of Government control health care," he said. "Because in my view, everybody is worth health care."

Edwards said his plan would cost up to $120 billion a year for statrters, a cost he proposes covering by ending President Bush's tax cuts to people who make more than $200,000 per year.
Yup. kill the economy and make people dependent on The Government.
Edwards, who has been criticized by some for calling on Americans to be willing to give up their SUVs while driving one, acknowledged Sunday that he owns a Ford Escape hybrid SUV, purchased within the year, and a Chrysler Pacifica, which he said he has had for years. "I think all of us have to move, have to make progress," he said. "I'm not holier-than-thou about this. ... I'm like a lot of Americans, I see how serious this issue is and I want to address it myself and I want to help lead the nation in the right direction."
Except for me. I already have mine and refuse to give it up. All you "Little People" need to understand you are incapable of determing for yourself what is best for you.
He said he would not buy another SUV in the future. The Ford Escape, the first hybrid SUV on the market, gets an estimated 36 mpg in the city and 31 mpg on the highway.
Wow. He's really saving. How many times does he fly Coach?
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-09-03
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