This is interesting. At a campaign stop in Raleigh, N.C., today, U.S. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, made a surprise announcement. He’s going to work with Elizabeth Edwards on health care. Yes. Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Sen. and one-time rival John Edwards. Yes, Elizabeth Edwards, who did not endorse the Illinois senator when her husband did. Yes, Elizabeth Edwards, who criticized Obama’s health care plan (and U.S. Sen. John McCain’s, too; he’s the presumptive Republican nominee) and embraced the plan offered by Sen. Hillary Clinton, the long-time health care maven.
I’d like to see Ms. Edwards steer Obama away from incentives for buying health insurance and toward single-payer health care.
What do you think of Obama’s health care plan? Do you think Ms. Edwards can help shape Obama’s health care policy into something that would help America and Americans? What would that be?
