John Edwards excludes illegal immigrants and unborn children from his massive health care proposal... or maybe the Associated Press is just mischaracterizing him. It's hard to tell because they don't quote much of his speech. (Bolding mine.)
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care. ...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.
The former North Carolina senator said all presidential candidates talking about health care "ought to be asked one question: Does your plan cover every single American?"
"Because if it doesn't they should be made to explain what child, what woman, what man in America is not worthy of health care," he said. "Because in my view, everybody is worth health care."
Ok, so it's actually pretty hard to tell if Edwards means "Americans" or just people "in America". By specifying "from birth to death" though he's purposefully excluding the unborn, despite the fact that they're both "Americans" and "in America".
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