John Edwards - AFL-CIO Debate - Health Care

[hadenufnow]

REPEAL the TAX & JAIL mandate bill nobody ever wanted..

[hadenufnow]

Kill the 3000 pg Illegal TAX & JAIL Trojan Horse Mandate Bill nobody wants...

Kill the bill...

Vote em out..

nobody wants it..

[joe24021991]

Obama recently passed his Health Care Bill

Now ... For a long long long time now America has been the only Nation / Country that YEAH took care of other people and Countries in need .. but never once took CARE OF ITS OWN!!!

For those who hate the new Heath Care Plan ... im sorry but in my Opinion ... they are the ones who HAVE GOOD HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS e.c.t

Europe does it ... Canada does it ... and NOW AMERICA NEED TO DO IT!!!

We can FUND A WAR BUT NOT HEALTH CARE

thats wrong

[chuckdyer]

Didn't this scum bag have a long term affair while he was married? This guy does cannot be trusted and will lie if it serves his purposes.

[wethepeopleUSA2012]

Watch Youtube video: The Health Care Bill: What they DON'T want you to know!

[HaggaiVS8]

Ha! He couldn't even win his on state.

[jlo889]

he was the one

[ruleraddison]

He is n inspiration. He will change things.

[flopmeister69]

notice how the guy asks what edwards can do to change it. The republicans would say it's his fault that he doesn't take care of himself.

WAY TO GO JOHN. YOU TORE THEM UP AND HAD THE CROWD GOING MAD. AWESOME.

[john4president08]

"I don't think you can take money from health insurance companies and be tough on them," Edwards said. "You can't be tough on your banker."

[john4president08]

The campaign declined to release actual figures, but said donations began pouring in shortly after the results of the Iowa caucus were announced, and continued to grow Friday to amount to what could be the best fundraising day since the candidate's website was launched a year ago.

Interesting!

*************Edwards 2008****************

[ytdsmom]

It obviously didn't help any in New Hampshire...

btw - That's weird. Why wouldn't a campaign not want to release figures. Ever other campaign does...hmmmmm

[roscoe85cj]

LOL .. there hasn't been a Democrap who sought office in 100 years that didn't promise all the "what has my country done for MEEEeeeeee lately" crowd (i.e. their voter base) a buttload of more ENTITLEMENTS

[roscoe85cj]

LOL .. Johnny Edwards CERTAINLY WON'T lower his contingency fee for all those boarderline-frivolous lawsuits he takes against Insurance Companies ... a cup of spilled hot coffee in someone's lap at McDonalds means $1,000,000 for Edwards and $100,000 for the victim. what kind of moron would vote for this lying sack of shit !

[ytdsmom]

Right-on Roscoe....I cannot understand why ppl refuse to look into Edwards. I've been directing ppl to simply Google: 'John Edwards Poor House'. I suppose they can read this all day long, but 'free stuff' speaks louder to them.

[KDROBERS1]

and GW Bush snorted crack, and Barak Hussein Obama did drugs and belongs to a church where the pastor speaks of "Black Supremacy", and Hillary stole in Whitewater, and Bill raped and stalked women, so what's new? None of them are perfect, but Edwards is right, Washington needs to change! No more lobbyists calling the shots. We should be calling the shots through our elected officials. We elect them, they should represent us, not the lobbyists.

[erkekler]

Get Stuck In Johnny!!!

Obama will invite the robber barons over to sit down and have tea and a polite chat :-(

Hillary will organize a commission to study the robber barons and delay taking action against them as long as possible in exchange for donations from the robber barons :-(

Edwards will punch the robber barons in the jaw, knock them in the balls, and force them to pay workers a living wage and stop poisoning the environment :-)

Get Stuck in Johnny!!!!

JOHN EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT!!!

[aweakgruel]

John Edwards' positions are in the tradition of FDR and Bobby Kennedy. He's exactly what America needs now. A true progressive!

[burritomtb]

Ah yes, the typical "free market" one size fits all response to solve everything. Let me guess, did you learn that in Republican 101?

My advice is to see Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" which outlines the harsh reality of the health care crisis. Even if you disagree with his other films, at least see "Sicko" to understand how the dilemma is affecting the lives of numerous Americans.

Edwards '08

[WOLFMOTHER100000]

How bout we not look toward Big Brother to fix our problems, but let an actual "free market" play out. We need to scrap all state restrictions and mandates, because only then will we have a consumer friendly form of health care.

The goal is to not have government fix our problems (which they cannot), but pursue freedom and liberty how our Founding Fathers intended.

[erkekler]

your argument is very silly...

"libertarianism" or complete laissez faire economics is a gross oversimplification that serious people outgrow by the time they graduate college...definitely by the time they're 35.

[waynie11]

Taking money from hard working people to pay other people by FORCE is an oversimplification. What's wrong with letting me keep the 900 dollars a month the IRS medicare and SS take from my pay and let me save, pay for health care, and donate to charity as I wish? It's more efficient that's for sure. I don't believe in robbing 'evil' rich people to pay others. If it's not free will, it's not morally good.

[tinabees]

Edwards is the best choice.

[ohyeahhm]

the neocons are very afraid of john edwards not to mention the republicans

[erkekler]

let the lying adventurist neocons and their robber barron allies, themselves slick with filthy lucre, tremble at the thought of President John Edwards who will use the levers of constitutional power, the clarity of his new progressive message and fortitude of his lifelong passion for justice to STOP THE SQUANDERING OF AMERICA!!

JOHN EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!

[stoneequinox]

Edwards, you suck! You know it's about more than pensions being equitable. It's about the business of making steel and other manufacturing leaving the states.... recession, and inflation.

[k3304]

Edwards is the PROBLEM of health care. That guy should move into his big fucking mansion !! John, you should be ashamed of yourself. Your a fucking billionare

[gusrostra]

WRONG!

If anybody is, Edwards is the only candidate that will deliver the American people health care, because he made those millions (not billons) by fighting for innocent people who's been screwed over by big pharma- and insurance companies!

And how does anybody being rich disqualify them as a candidate? or a good person? I don't see a poor person running a national campaign anytime soon...

[k3304]

gusrostra, Pharma and insurance companies have shareholders. It's market driven innovation. Under democrat marxism we will have no growth stagflation and a destroyed economy

[gusrostra]

now you're just scaremongering k3304. there is no historical basis for saying that strong unionized labour is bad for the economy.

and i don't have to remind you that America is currently being bancrupted by corporate republicans, do i?

[k3304]

gusrostra, Jimmy Carter negotiated a 2 tiered union contract with the Teamsters. Clinton signed the NAFTA agreement and Hillary was on the board of Wal Mart. How has the democrats been good to unions ?

[ToddBudreau]

Malpractice suits are a tiny part of healthcare cost increases.

The vast majority of medical increases (80-90%) come from there being more healthcare to pick from, better healthcare, and more people using it and needing it.

The strawman argument of malpractice suits being behind medical costs is a misleading myth at best.

[newfie8]

Jesus Christ i really feel bad for the guy and it makes me feel even worse when i think about the other thousands of people that this happen to. Come on over to Canada everybody, Were taking hundreds of thousands of towel heads every year so come on over and be stress free.

[k3304]

newfie8, how can you believe John Edwards ? He needs to house black families in his big frigging mansion. He's no more union than Hillary, the Board of Director of Wal Mart.

[4rdsuks]

As long as voters keep re-electing the same crooked cronies to Washington, nothing will ever be done for the working class. No matter your party, next election vote the incumbents out!

[sonofrattler]

Edwards and his trial lawyer pals are one of the biggest problems with healthcare. Ask the asshole from where he made a vast majority of his money. I'll tell you; he made it by suing DR's and hospitals. 2 words; FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS!DISGUSTING STINKING TRIAL LAWYER MAGGOT! He's a multi-millionare who cares for us "little people". What a load of HORSE SHIT!

[mattjs64]

Excuse me? none of his lawsuits were frivolous. he only got what his clients were entitled to, for example he recovered monetary damages from a hospital which botched the delivery of a child, thus causing her to be deformed for the rest of her life, it was negligence on behalf of the doctor, do u not think that the hospital should compensate the family for their lifetime of suffering? if u had a loved one who had their lives ruined by a doctor, would you not want justice?

[sonofrattler]

None were frivolous? Bullshit. He and his ilk go fishing for any angle they can to introduce a lawsuit. They blame EVERY possible thing on Dr's and hospitals. I was in a hospital once and a nurse told me she had pateints whose families would vidotape her every move, hoping to cash in. There are too many Americans looking to hit "the lottery" and too many Edwards types helping them do it. Fix health care, shit-can the trial lawyers!

[bkdook]

Watch the Cris Mathews interview and he freely admits he has excellent coverage from medi care and that his wife is not at retirement age. He should be the poster child for what works in our country, not what doesn't, because apparently the system did not let him down after all.

[Kolt4JC]

Conversely, the candidate that maps out the

(R)evolution the wins this country back from big business money and antiquated religious dogma, for the true salvation of the American People...that candidate knows the truth that will set the whole world free, indeed.

And it IS coming!

Viva la (R)evolution!!!

Praise The Lord of Creation and Glory to King Jesus, the Forgiver of Stupidity....

[Kolt4JC]

There will always be limits imposed by the puppeteers (i.e. The 7 Ruling Aristocracies) upon the puppets of political leadership.

As long as they decide and present to us our choices for leadership, we are never free.

[k3304]

I want to take Hillary's Wal Mart stock profits and give that money to urban babymaking hustler's and con artists. Viva la revolution !!

[k3304]

Let's rape all the drug companies and put them out of business. Wait,,, That's a bad idea ! And don't touch Clinton's Wal Mart stock, either !!

[leftwingwacko]

The democrats have failed organized labor! Empty promises! Bill Clinton signed NAFTA in 1992 and it was pretty much over for unions and the power of organized labor.

[RussellsParadox]

So ironic... without taxation and government interference, fewer companies would go bankrupt, and this man might have been just fine. But instead, we'll take more of the poison that caused the problem in the first place and call it the cure.

If we didn't penalize successful companies for their success to pay for our health care... we wouldn't need to penalize successful companies for their success to pay for our health care.

[Wizard364]

Edwards is the best choice for the Democratic nomination.

[haightstreetcrier]

evidence that our health care system does not work

youtube com/watch?v=DxJtyIjjmEA

[RussellsParadox]

Do you consider this a viable alternative?

youtube com/watch?v=oXZaTXDu3Os

[RussellsParadox]

Also, consider the position you'd be in if you had been allowed to keep and save/invest all the money that's been stolen from you by the government in your life.

I have nothing but sympathy for you, but I'd advise you not to shoot yourself (and ME, and my CHILDREN... and their children and children's children, etc.) in the foot by voting for this guy.

[monkeyboyjh]

Universal Health Care.........not a good Idea......................Look at what they have done to Social Security. Do we really want the government getting their hands on even more of our money?

[saketheshadow]

true but im pretty sure that the fire department works pretty good. so does the garbage pickup for the most part. and the mail.

[RussellsParadox]

Right, because we've all been exposed to alternatives, and we know how awful THEY did...

...oh, wait.

[saketheshadow]

wait im confused, are you agreeing or disagreeing with me?

[RussellsParadox]

*sigh* do you remember a time when fire departments and garbage pickup services were private affairs? I bet not... so what do you have to compare them to?

And the USPS is seriously shit on a stick. I'm constantly getting mail that should have been delivered to my neighbors. UPS and FedEx, on the other hand, do a bang-up job most of the time. It's amazing they manage to maintain financial viability in the presence of a government favored shit-stain like the USPS.

[saketheshadow]

well one quick thing.

no i do not remember privatized fire department so i wont speak on that. i do know about the privatized garbage pickup which was quickly taken over by organized crime.

also fedex is a government company. fedex stands for federal express. ups fedex and usps arent that great in all. i have health insurance so im not complaining for me. i complain for my father who has 20,000 dollars in medical bills because his insurance did not cover his necessary dental operations.

[RussellsParadox]

Organized crime? Of what sort? How?

...wrong, it's a private company. From wiki: "The name was chosen to symbolize a national marketplace, and help in obtaining government contracts."

And is it fair to force other people to pay for it? Why not just rob banks till you get up to 20,000? How is that morally different?

[saketheshadow]

and we shouldnt be forced to move to canada if we cannot afford something. i would gladly pay a rise, even a large one, in taxes if it assured me that at least some amount of healthcare to those in need.

btw i didnt mention my father as a sob story i simply mentioned it to show my background on the issue.

[RussellsParadox]

Well, great. If you want to pay more in taxes, you're entirely welcome to send more of your money to the government. Just leave me out of it.

[saketheshadow]

to involve wikipedia: "In 2000, FedEx and the USPS signed a 7-year contract to carry all the USPS overnight and high-priority mail throughout the FedEx system. The postal contract has recently been extented until 2012 and USPS continues to be one of the largest customers for FedEx."

thats current current standing government conract.

the organized crime was started by the chicago mafia in order to use garbage as a coverup for criminal operations.

[RussellsParadox]

Oh, and yeah... I guess that makes FedEx sort of a "public" institution... but no company is fully private if it uses roads funded by tax dollars.

A trivial, but interesting point.

[saketheshadow]

and robbing banks of 20000 dollars is nowhere near the same as gettin free healthcare.

the only valid point ive seen in your argument is the worry that the government will keep the tax money meant for SHC. thats something that is a risk to everything everywhere. but remember a government isnt a physical being its a piece if writing on paper. the money specifically goes somewhere and can be routed back through similar means.

[RussellsParadox]

No, I'm not worried that the government will just pocket the cash from the tax hikes - though that's a legitimate concern, it's irrelevant. I am fundamentally opposed to taxation - all taxation. I see no moral difference between taxation (the confiscation of the wealth of people against their will by "governments") and theft (the confiscation of the wealth of people against their will... by "criminals").

Tell me how they're morally different, and perhaps I'll reconsider.

[saketheshadow]

in a way i do see the point you are making. in a sort of agreement i have to ask why, since land can be in citizens names, they cannot declare it as their own country due to the fact that it legally stands as their land. if they were to do that then taxes and public services would not have to effect said landowner.

[saketheshadow]

i think that should be possible. however, until that day can come we have to change things through our current standpoint and our current standpoint is becoming more and more socialized. as it stands we are now just discussing a point of opinion, and being we are both educated individuals i doubt that either of us can change the others opinion. it comes down to a question of personal morals. you believe that noone should be able to forcibly take your money, i belive that its a sacrifice.

[batman182006]

jesus christ i feel bad 4 that guy

fuck every healthcare company in America

[bobbyd100]

I have never rallied behind a candidate like I have John Edwards this cycle. This video illustrates it perfectly on what needs to be done, treat workers and business elites the same. If the workers' pension is cut, then the CEO's should be too. I like that =)

[RussellsParadox]

Well sure, that's perfectly sane... but there's the whole socialized medicine thing.

[jackthe71special]

Steve Skvara is the victim of economic rape and spktrader is ready to blame the victim. That is not right and I wonder how someone like spktrader can think that it is the system set up to help those in need that is wrong rather tan the system that is set up to take them down

[zimmie57]

I was at this debate. This was the best moment, and John Edwards gave a terific answer. John Edwards is The best man for the White House.

[RussellsParadox]

"ooh, he talked good, I liek him!"

[ufcama]

R O N P A U L 2 0 0 8

[limeorange2]

John Edwards gave a terrific response. His plan for health care is the best one offered by any of the candidates.

[zzvmp1982]

Steve Skvara is my father and I am proud he is getting his voice heard. The sad thing is he is a small voice of many. Millions of Americans need health care and we need to do something about it. Health care is neither Dem. nor Rep. lets just get it done!

[RussellsParadox]

Sorry, buddy, but uhm... how? We can't seem to agree on HOW.

Hence the ideological separation between the socialist camp and the libertarians.

[wikilola]

Has this key-to-the-future-of-the-natio­n issue received enough attention from ex Senator John Edwards?

To learn all about it, GOOGLE these 3 terms...

GOOGLE: --- PR English independence ---

In google you can find out whether our candidates our paying enough attention to issues that actually will determine our future as a country and nation.

[lc0149]

Ron Paul, with his free market mentality will kick the working poor and middle class in this country in the ASS! We need a candidate who has a perfect balance, and that's DENNIS KUCINICH!

[agentq271]

Ron Paul will kick everybody's ass!! He' s prepared to send all the Wall Street bankers straight to the back of the unemployment line with his no bail outs agenda. He's also prepared to put all americans in a state of bad health with his tax codes and he'll millions of government employees out of work. It will be interesting to see if he gets elected.

[lc0149]

LibertyStorms we can have all of those advantages that you've just laid out of Ron Paul AND also have a candidate who truly has a not for profit healthcare plan. DENNIS KUCINICH! He is the only candidate who has all of those benefits you just laid out of Ron Paul but lacks all of his disadvantages like his opposition to Universal Healthcare and his belief that education is not a human right in this country.

[ProjectThreshold]

Ron Paul? Ron Paul will sell us all to the big corporations, or to the highest bidder using his free market religion to justify the sale. Ron Paul will pronounce America dead on arrival. The Libertarians and Objectivists like Paul are the most naive fools on the American political scene, or the most sinister. The talk liberty, but when you press them they only defend it for the corporate powers that are destroying this country.

[limeorange2]

Thank you for your comments. You hit the nail right on the head: "naive fools...or sinister." (Either way, it's not good.)

It seems that there are folks out there who really don't understand what Ron Paul is all about. He's actually pretty frightening, once you look beyond his talking points.

[candy46]

im sure some people here are payed to write good things about some people. amyway i live in the uk and its FREE yep free. ok in SOME countries the tax is a bit higher, but its worth it. no one here loses a house or bankcrupt to pay bills and no one is turned away.know wonder they call it the american dream cause you can never have it

[a78746]

Anyone that is an Edwards supporter should like the video "I wanna be like Hillary", it reminds me of all of the often ignored scandals surrounding Hillary. It's funny.

[DasSugar]

Edwards may be the best of the so-called "top tier" candidates, but Kucinich has him beat far and away with platforms, ideas, bill sponsorships and voting record. Stop listening to the mainstream media! Their masters are the same as Edwards, Clinton, Obama, Giuliana, Romney--all those hacks bow to whoever throws the most money at them. For real change, either Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul will have to be elected. Otherwise we're in for the same old same old. Don't believe me? Just wait and see.

[spktrader]

What's wrong with America? Sir, It's not America, It's you. You are the one who decided to rely on sombody else to provide for you. That's what's wrong.

[DasSugar]

Our system is broken--politicians no longer serve the people, they serve corporate interests. Hell yes there's something wrong with America: idiots like you who defend the people in power while crapping on the poor who've worked all their lives with nothing to show for it.

Amazing that human beings think they're smarter than animals, yet so many resist cooperation in favor of survival of the fittest (or richest, or whoever can play the system better).

[evigil]

What kind of response is this?

[TheKiddy3]

He responded to what the man asked. He spoke to the need for universal health care and the role strong unions can play in protectings workers -- but he added that health care should be for everyone and not something hard won at the bargaining table. The man looked happy with the response, so it must have resonated with him.

[saxoman69]

So is he supposed to work at McDonald's to provide health care for his family? I'm sure he decided to have a disability. Did you hear? He was forced to retire. He had a pension. He worked for 34 *years*. He's not a welfare chump working the system. He's a hard-working man. He paid into that pension. I hope you don't become disabled.

[BlackKnight03]

Either you are a desperate troll, or a very stupid kid. Let me ask you this, if I someone were to shoot you and paralize you, would you rely on other people to help you?

[lgrf4evr]

if slavery still existed today, people like you would defend it, saying that it is the slave fault for getting kidnap by the white colonist, and brought to the usa to work as slave in the cotton plantation.

[choppermfg]

Edward got my vote.

[lc0149]

I still think UHC is more important than the issues Ron Paul stands for. Ron Paul does not care about the average WORKING American. Edwards may be on that organzation's list but NOT Dennis Kucinich who is the only candidate Democrat or Republican who proposes a non-for profit Universal Healthcare system.

[DFMovieMan]

Honestly, of all the Democratic candidates, John Edwards seems to be the only one who genuinely cares about creating a real, no-excuses universal healthcare system. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's what I gather from you, Senator Edwards. I'm so relieved that you won't settle for "expanded private healthcare" or anything like that.

I'd proudly vote for you. Also, if we do elect you as president...Bill Richardson would make a great secretary of state. Just throwing that out there.

[Kathy254Steve]

John Edwards was the first candidate to develop a universal health care plan, and is the only leading candidate whose plan is truly universal. He has a history of fighting for working class and poor families--as a trial attorney, as a senator, as a citizen activist walking over 200 picket lines and helping to pass minimum wage increases in six states. He wants everyone to have the same opportunity he has had. He is our only hope for true change in the White House. John Edwards for President!

[gungagin]

What courage the asker has! Bless his heart!

[Teamster771]

It was not too long ago that hearing these stories were very few and far between. However, these days I feel like I am hearing people tell these sort of stories every where I go and all the time... Profit over people, I feel this mans pain and fear the road ahead at the same time.

[Liberatorusa]

Vote for improvement, vote John Edwards

[marklethanarkle]

one thing that i can't bear, is seeing a grown man cry. because you know that there is a good reason for it, when he does. we've got to fight for universal healthcare! they aren't just going to give it to us!

[pilotsdaughter]

John Edwards will force corporate America and the politicians to unite to provide all of us with healthcare and pension protection. He's the one!

[AnotherHappyLiberal]

More information about Steve Skvara is available at The Chicago Tribune website. Search the blogs.

[4whites]

GREAT MAN

[AnotherHappyLiberal]

zblfma The guy works 36 years, goes out on disability, gets ripped for his pension and has to watch his wife of 30 odd years skip health care she needs. And u call him a pathetic whiner? U are SCUM!

[ObieERAU]

It is time! Universal Health Care! Pssst...WE ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR IT! We are not getting what we pay for.

[c588415]

I felt sorry for Mr.Skvara.This man worked hard for his retirement/pension ,his health insurance,and got screwed.Moreover,I bet the CEO's of the former company

Mr.Skvara worked for got paid million's,and that is a bunch of BS!

[zblfma]

remember the movie, the D.I. with jack webb as Sgt. Moore,,,,what would Sgt. Moore tell this miserable excuse for a human being in the face of many thousands of young vets coming home with missing  body parts and senses. i'll bet this guy was a plant, that's how they do it in chicago, i oughta know!!!!!!!!!! no offense to you sir, but this guy really makes me puke.

[NewsFan2]

Wow. Steve lives in the house behind mine, and his wife was a substitute teacher of mine.

[zerochance77]

What a sorry excuse for a human being you are...and that's coming from a vet. You're a horses ass buddy.

[zblfma]

go rent or buy the movie THE D.I., everytime you begin to feel sorry for yourself, or go to HINES, REED, BAMC, INTREPID, or any other vet hospital serving horriby maimed young vets with little babies depending on them, THEY AREN'T FEELING SORRY FOR THEMSELVES!

[c588415]

zblf,I am fully aware of the unfair treatment our troops are receive upon returning home from active duty.I too, support our troops 100%,however many Americans are getting screwed out of whats owed to them.

[c588415]

zblfma, I ignored your first post addressed to me,now you are starting to piss me off.You made your point;so,my advise to you is to move the hell on!!

[zblfma]

anyone feeling bad about the deal life gave them should rent or buy Jack Webb"s THE D.I. and watch it over and over and over,,,,ooooooooooor visit a vet center with amputees with young ones that call them mommy or daddy, now look at your bad deal!

[saketheshadow]

the fact that other people may have it worse doesnt exclude him from pain. i could cut your leg off and tell you that you could be dead but it wont make that leg feel any better.

[zzvmp1982]

I am Steve Skvara's son do not feel sorry just get his message out there. He is one of many that get screwed by corp. america. We need to change the direction america is going. Thank you for your support...

[KidsForChange]

John Edwards 2008!

[solracselbor]

*face palms* I hope Al Gore runs...

[zblfma]

i once knew a man who cried about his healthcare until he saw a young veteran, a father of babies, who had no legs, no arms and no eyes, QUIT YOUR CRYING YOU PATHETIC OLD MAN!

[KidsForChange]

John in is on it.

[KidsForChange]

Edwards 08! Go John! He is the best candidate and will be the President.

[luvurself1st]

Enough is enough we are Americans, we need a Universal health care system, It's time we vote for people who are interested in changing this health care system and for any American to hear 1 more time about the downside of a universal health care system, problems in countries like France and Canada. WE ARE AMERICANS, LETS DO IT BETTER!!!! We need to take care of our own, NOW!! Watch Sicko even if you hate Michael Moore, it is a real eye opener! Thank you

[c588415]

luvurself 1st, i agree with you 100%;however,its easier said than done!

[zblfma]

both democrat and republican parties are the bought dogs of corporate america, john edwards will not be allowed to help anyone, you gotta do or die trying, that's the marine corp spirit!

[luvurself1st]

We have to stand up and vote for candidates who will create Universal Health Care and that is across the board if we have an incumbent senator who doesn't want UHC then we vote him out and put in the person who will vote the way WE AMERICANS WANT. "WE" have the power it's time we use that power and take care of our own!!! Yes, it's easier said then done but it can be done, I think there are plenty of people who are tired of this system we have and are ready to do something about it

[RussellsParadox]

...and by WE, you mean YOU and all your pinko friends. *I* do not want UHC. If YOU want UHC, that's fine - YOU PAY FOR IT.

[RussellsParadox]

If you want "free" universal health care, please just move to Canada and stop trying to get people to steal more of my money at the point of a gun.

[rockybalboa55]

you are all so very right.... once again though the media is ignoring him.... thsi moment was by far teh highest of teh night. Just liek he had to highest mark in teh last debate, and before that he was voted the best one..... Clinton continued with her lies and Obama showed his extreme inexperience once again... Edwards 08

[SparklestheClown]

Wow, that was pretty powerful!  Keep on doing that! But be sure to back it! Good Job!!!

Sparkles

[ibtjack]

Supporting Unions, Labor and Middle Class American Workers comes from your Gut and Heart,not your Mouth, Edwards shows he has the Guts and Heart to make America Great again.

[RussellsParadox]

Yes, but... *sigh* then there's the brain...

[Grimli]

He won that debate, but the pundits have blown him off again

[siszam]

I want to hear Mr. Edwards be the only one besides Ron Paul to speak out against Real I.D. I love Mr. Edwards stance on healthcare. I don't like the lead up to being marked though. That is what Real I.D. is leading to. We don't need it. It doesn't help anyone. Be brave and and fight it.

[ivotejre]

Go Edwards! The main stream media can spin all they want but, Edwards won this debate amongst those that really matter - the PEOPLE!

[ptrferdinand]

Brilliant. A poignant story and a steadfast, impassioned response. John Edwards WILL be the next President of the United States of America.