This morning, in a speech in Iowa, Hillary Clinton will offer her healthcare reform proposal.
I hope everyone will listen carefully to what she has to say. The early word is that it's not exactly what we're all hoping for, but it's a start.
The big news in fact is coming from John Edwards. If the traditional media is true to form, they will punt the Edwards announcement. Shame on them. Here's what CNN is reporting.
The campaign of fellow Democrat John Edwards, which has already put out a detailed a health care plan, will up the ante Monday during a speech to the Laborers' International Union of North America in Chicago, Illinois, campaign sources said.
The Edwards proposal would cut off health care for the president, Congress and all political appointees in mid 2009, if a universal health care plan for all Americans has not been passed by then.
Edwards is expected to outline "basic principles" the health care plan would have to meet, the sources
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John Edwards has dramatically raised the bar and is single-handedly shaping the debate. To say he has "upped the ante" is the understatement of the decade. It seems quite appropriate to ask all the presidential candidates whether they too will support the Edwards proposal.
John Edwards challenge to the political class changes the very character of the national discussion. The time has come to demand that every member of Congress agree to give up their coverage at a date specified in 2009, if all American citizens do not have cradle to grave, affordable and guaranteed healthcare.
It is time to pull the Cadillac coverage which the executive and legislative branch give themselves. Tony Snow is a testimonial to the excellence of government provided, taxpayer funded healthcare.
Until and unless the American people have affordable and guaranteed healthcare, this is the only remedy hardship, we can impose on those who seek to play Three Card Monte with our lives. When the the political class is forced to endure the same crimes as those inflicted on the American people by the PAY OR DIE, MURDER BY SPREADSHEET for-profit insurance industry, they may get serious.
We've been asking where are our leaders, this, my friends, is leadership.