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~ John's Plan ~
Under the Edwards Plan:
- Families without insurance will get coverage at an affordable price.
- Families with insurance will pay less and get more security and choices.
- Businesses and other employers will find it cheaper and easier to insure their workers.
The Edwards Plan achieves universal coverage by:
- Requiring businesses and other employers to either cover their employees or help finance their health insurance.
- Making insurance affordable by creating new tax credits, expanding Medicaid and SCHIP, reforming insurance laws, and taking innovative steps to contain health care costs.
- Creating regional "Health Care Markets" to let every American share the bargaining power to purchase an affordable, high-quality health plan, increase choices among insurance plans, and cut costs for businesses offering insurance.
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~ What Others Have Said ~
"So this is a smart, serious proposal. It addresses both the problem of the uninsured and the waste and inefficiency of our fragmented insurance system. And every candidate should be pressed to come up with something comparable."
~ Paul Krugman (The New York Times)
~ Why Do I Care? ~
When I was 13 years old, I was diagnosed with Graves Disease. It is an auto-immune disease which ultimately attacks the thyroid. I was fortunate back then during the many doctor visits, lab work, and radiation treatment to have good health care with my parents. When I turned 24, for the first time, I lost my health insurance. I have to pay out of pocket like millions of Americans for the regular check ups I need with a specialist, the blood work, and medication. I did pretty good for the first year as I was working and my fiance was working as well. However, I ended up in the emergency room due to a complication of improper medication dosage for my thyroid and the bill was horrible. I couldn't believe how fast people go into debt over things much bigger than this. I didn't even stay overnight. I was in there for four hours. At this time, I was in my graduate level internship which paid nothing and my fiance was the only one working. We felt so powerless. To think that we have the ability in this country to not have to worry about these things ever again, makes me stand beside John in his quest for universal health care as President. Don't buy the Obama hype who basically copies John's plan but doesn't actually make it universal or Clinton's who honestly won't go universal because she won't disrupt her connections to the drug companies which she has invested in. So, why do I care? Because John believes that people like me who have pre-existing conditions should be covered and not only us but everyone else inbetween!
~ Who is John Edwards? ~
John Edwards was born in Seneca, South Carolina and raised in Robbins, North Carolina, a small town in the Piedmont. There John learned the values of hard work and perseverance from his father, Wallace, who worked in the textile mills for 36 years, and from his mother, Bobbie, who ran a shop and worked at the post office. Working alongside his father at the mill, John developed his strong belief that all Americans deserve an equal opportunity to succeed and be heard.
A proud product of public schools, John became the first person in his family to attend college. He worked his way through North Carolina State University where he graduated with high honors in 1974, and then earned a law degree with honors in 1977 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For the next 20 years, John dedicated his career to representing families and children just like the families he grew up with in Robbins. Standing up against the powerful insurance industry and their armies of lawyers, John helped these families through the darkest moments of their lives to overcome tremendous challenges. His passionate advocacy for people like the folks who worked in the mill with his father earned him respect and recognition across the country.
In 1998, John took this commitment into politics to give a voice in the United States Senate to the people he had represented throughout his career. He ran for the Senate and won, defeating an incumbent Senator.
In Congress, Senator Edwards quickly emerged as a champion for the issues that make a difference to American families: quality health care, better schools, protecting civil liberties, preserving the environment, saving Social Security and Medicare, and reforming the ways campaigns are financed.
As a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Edwards worked tirelessly for a strong national defense and to strengthen the security of our homeland. He authored key pieces of legislation on cyber, bio, and port security.
Senator Edwards brought a positive message of change to the 2004 presidential primaries. During the primary season he spoke about the two Americas that exist in our country today: one for people at the top who have everything they need and one for everybody else who struggle to get by. This powerful message resonated with voters all across America.
After the Democratic primaries, Senator John Kerry picked Senator Edwards to serve as his running mate in the 2004 general election, and Senator Edwards crisscrossed the country and campaigned tirelessly on Senator Kerry's behalf.
He is the former Director of the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Senator Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, whom he met when both were law students at Chapel Hill, were married in 1977. They have had four children, including: their eldest daughter, Catharine, who is attending law school; nine-year-old Emma Claire; and a seven-year-old son, Jack. Their first child, Wade, died in 1996.
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