Here is yet another example of why the political left long ago lost any claim to the label of being "liberals," i.e., being pro-freedom. It turns out that the centerpiece of John Edwards' proposal for socialized medicine is to regiment all of us into a mandatory, government-dictated regime of medical checkups and tests.
Conservative partisan James Taranto archly points out that "liberals, who these days are more or less uniformly pro-abortion, invariably speak of that practice in terms of 'privacy' and 'choice.' But how in the world can anyone who values privacy and choice more than life itself possibly countenance a policy of forcing women to have mammograms?"
"John Edwards' Universal Health Care Plan Would Make Regular Checkups Mandatory," AP via Fox News, September 3 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." Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.
Edwards said his plan would cost up to $120 billion a year, a cost he proposes covering by ending President Bush's tax cuts to people who make more than $200,000 per year.
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