Why I am not voting for Edwards? I don't like the word "mandatory", I don't like socialism, I like having a CHOICE if I want a mammogram or not, and I don't want the government holding my hand as though I were a helpless baby while they dictate to me what immunizations , mammograms, or other pharmacuetical preventative measures they tell me I must take under mandated law.

Below is an exerpt from an article from the Boston Globe with Edwards' plans on mandatory healthcare:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/02/edwards_backs_mandatory...


"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 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 whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death," he said.


That's just the polite way of saying that every American will be regulated in the "System" from birth to death. No more choices on how you want to take care of your body, America- one more step towards a fresh United socialist government that will benefit the entire pharmaceutical industry.

Hillary's idea of Health Care is not really any better than Edwards.

At least with Obama, the health care wont' be MANDATORY (unless he changes his mind later).